tumescence
noun
1 tumescence
Tumidity resulting from the presence of blood or other fluid in the tissues.
Roget 374a:
sex,
sexuality,
gender;
male,
masculinity,
maleness
etc.
373;
female,
femininity
etc.
374.
sexual intercourse,
copulation,
mating,
coitus,
sex;
lovemaking,
marital relations,
sexual union;
sleeping together,
carnal knowledge.
sex instinct,
sex drive,
libido,
lust,
concupiscence;
hots,
horns [Coll.];
arousal,
heat,
rut,
estrus,
oestrus;
tumescence;
erection,
hard-on,
boner.
masturbation,
self-gratification,
autoeroticism,
onanism,
self-abuse.
orgasm,
climax,
ejaculation.
sexiness,
attractiveness;
sensuality,
voluptuousness.
[sexual intercourse outside of marriage]
fornication,
adultery.
[person who is sexy]
sex symbol,
sex goddess;
stud,
hunk.
one-night stand.
pornography,
porn,
porno;
hardcore pornography,
softcore pornography;
pin-up,
cheesecake;
beefcake;
[magazines with sexual photos],
Playboy,
Esquire,
Hustler.
[unorthodox sexual activity]
perversion,
deviation,
sexual abnormality;
fetish,
fetishism;
homosexuality,
lesbianism,
bisexuality;
sodomy,
buggery;
pederasty;
sadism.
masochism,
sado-masochism;
incest.
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Dutch: opzwelling, zwelling
Moby thesaurus: access, accession, accretion, accrual, accruement, accumulation, addition, advance, aggrandizement, amplification, appreciation, ascent, augmentation, ballooning, bloat, bloatedness, bloating, blowing up, boil, boom, boost, broadening, buildup, bump, bunion, carbuncle, corn, crescendo, cyst, development, diastole, dilatation, dilation, distension, dropsy, edema, elevation, enlargement, expansion, extension, flatulence, flatulency, flatus, flood, furuncle, gain, gassiness, greatening, growth, gush, hike, increase, increment, inflation, intumescence, jump, leap, lump, meteorism, mounting, multiplication, pimple, pock, productiveness, proliferation, puff, puffiness, puffing, pustule, raise, rise, rising, sebaceous cyst, snowballing, spread, stretching, surge, swell, swellage, swelling, swollenness, tumefaction, tumidity, tumidness, tumor, turgescence, turgescency, turgidity, turgidness, tympanism, tympany, up, upping, upsurge, upswing, uptrend, upturn, waxing, wen, widening, windiness ... show more.
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