different between orgastic vs orgiastic

English

Etymology

From orgas(m) +? -t- +? -ic. Compare sarcastic, spastic.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /????ast?k/
• Rhymes: -æst?k

Adjective

orgastic (comparative more orgastic, superlative most orgastic)

1. Orgasmic (exciting or stimulating; relating to or prone to orgasm). [from 19th c.]
   • 1926, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Penguin 2000, p. 171:

     Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us.

   • 1954, Cornell University, Epoch, Volume 6, page 27,

     There is surely no more orgastic torture for children than the cries of another child being punished.

   • 1974, Morton M. Hunt, Sexual behavior in the 1970s, page 214,

     In the older half of our sample the nondevout women are somewhat more orgastic than the devout, but in the younger half of the sample it is the devout who are more orgastic.

   • 1976, Benjamin J. Sadock, Harold I. Kaplan, Alfred M. Freedman (editors), The Sexual Experience, page 370,

     However, Pomeroy's (1965) data are contradictory, in that he found prostitutes to be more orgastic than normal women.

Romanian

Etymology

French orgastique

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [or??astik]

Adjective

orgastic m or n (feminine singular orgastic?, masculine plural orgastici, feminine and neuter plural orgastice)

1. orgastic

Declension

Synonyms

• orgasmic

Related terms

• orgasm

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ??????????? (orgiastikós, “exciting”), from ????????? (orgiast?s, “orgy celebrator”), from ????????? (orgiázein, “to celebrate orgies”), from ????? (órgia).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /???d?i?æst?k/

  Rhymes: -æst?k

Adjective

orgiastic (comparative more orgiastic, superlative most orgiastic)

1. Relating to an orgy; uncontrolled, wild. [from the late 16th c.]
   • 1919, Sax Rohmer, Dope

     Dancing was in progress, or, rather, one of those orgiastic ceremonies which passed for dancing during this pagan period.

Translations

References

Anagrams

• agoristic

Romanian

Etymology

From French orgiastique

Adjective

orgiastic m or n (feminine singular orgiastic?, masculine plural orgiastici, feminine and neuter plural orgiastice)

1. orgiastic

Declension