self-abuse

1. 1.

   manual stimulation of your own genital organ for sexual pleasure

   Synonymsself-stimulation

   Broadermasturbation

Questions about self-abuse

What does self-abuse mean?

self-abuse means "manual stimulation of your own genital organ for sexual pleasure".

How many syllables are in self-abuse?

self-abuse has 3 syllables: sel-f-a-buse. The stress falls on "sel".

What is another word for self-abuse?

Close synonyms include self-stimulation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is self-abuse a common word?

self-abuse is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.