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US
/ˌtɪtɪˈɫeɪʃən/
]
[ UK /tˌɪtɪlˈeɪʃən/ ]
[ UK /tˌɪtɪlˈeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
- a tingling feeling of excitement (as from teasing or tickling)
- an agreeable arousal
- the act of tickling
How To Use titillation In A Sentence
- It's like titillation value was more important than ability to touch or affect other people's lives.
- Its tone is one of parlour room titillation blended with out and out Lynchian weirdness - a fantastically inventive and darkly funny film that unsettles and unnerves the audience.
- There are moments of titillation and suspense, but ultimately the movie is heavy on concept, not content.
- Andrew Horn's documentary keeps just the right chilled distance from its evanescent subject matter and pays due reverence to Klaus without falling into titillation or fandom.
- We ape the worst of tabloid titillation in a relentless downward drive of tacky exploitation.
- Starving men may think much about food, but so do gluttons; the gorged, as well as the famished, like titillations.
- It is one where the clear purpose of extensive coverage was titillation.
- FLUFF APPRECIATION DAY (In honor of all those who excel in the art of bureaucratic bafflegab, delightful double-speak, and twisted-tongued titillations)
- The answer often lies as much in titillation as in antinomianism.
- A strange and pleasant titillation of all his nerves, somewhat similar to that which in the morning convinces a man that he has had a refreshing and healing sleep, seemed to hint to him that here he was not the usual neuropathic therapeutist of Ashbury fame, not a mere specialist spectator, but an acting figure, a participator in this family affair. Too Old for Dolls A Novel