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onanism|ˈəʊnənɪz(ə)m|
[f. proper name Onan (Gen. xxxviii. 9) + -ism.]
Self-abuse, masturbation. Also = coitus interruptus. Also fig.
1727–41Chambers Cycl., Onania, and Onanism, terms which some late empirics have framed, to denote the crime of self-pollution. 1847–9Todd Cycl. Anat. IV. 156/2 A young man excessively addicted to onanism. 1874Bucknill & Tuke Psych. Med. (ed. 3) 760 Onanism is a frequent accompaniment of Insanity and sometimes causes it. 1892A. K. Gardner Conjugal Relationships vii. 96 This man put into practice, to calm the fears of his wife,..the best calculated refinements of conjugal onanism. 1900L. B. Sperry Confidential Talks with Husband & Wife x. 150 Another scheme for the prevention of conception is to withdraw the penis from the vagina just before the ejaculation of semen. This method is appropriately called ‘Onanism’. 1939R. Campbell Flowering Rifle iii. 96 Who sponsor Onanism and Divorce And let the birthrate flounder on its course. 1952Encycl. Sexual Knowl. (ed. 2) i. 78 It is therefore not correct to attribute the practice of masturbation to Onan, though the word onanism is to-day widely accepted in this latter sense and it would be pedantic not to recognize this term. 1967G. Steiner Lang. & Silence 98 The recent university experiment in which faculty wives agreed to practise onanism in front of the researchers' cameras. 1977P. Rooney in D. Marcus Best Irish Short Stories II. 141 The onanism of the language, a phrase masturbated without hope of final clear expression.
So ˈonanist, one who practises onanism; onaˈnistic a., relating to onanism.
1855W. Whitman Leaves of Grass 70 The sick-gray faces of onanists. 1867Robertson & Rutherford tr. Griesinger's Mental Path. & Therapeutics ii. iii. 173 That hidden strife betwixt shame, repentance, good intentions, and irritation, which imperiously impels to the act, we consider, after not a little acquaintance with onanists, to be by far more important than the primary, direct physical effect. 1891Cent. Dict., Onanist. 1892Syd. Soc. Lex., Onanistic. 1926tr. M. von Gruber's Hygiene of Sex vii. 120 The disturbances, which the physician so frequently finds in onanists are the same as those found in persons who indulge in extreme excesses of intercourse. 1934F. Scott Fitzgerald Tender is Night ii. ix. 199 There was something wooden and onanistic about her. 1961D. Holbrook Eng. for Maturity iv. 45 Our essential cultural experiences are not celebrative, they are, rather, onanistic. 1962Listener 20 Sept. 438/2 Quilty's fundamental childishness, his self-regarding, onanistic posing sets the tone of the whole film. 1966Ibid. 22 Dec. 937/3 An uneasy childhood..Wykehamist Schooldays from the bullying horrors of which he escapes into an onanistic fantasy-world. 1973Daily Tel. 23 Mar. 15/1 The onanistic aspect of these brief encounters in public places. |