different between orgiastic vs orgasmic

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

English

Alternative forms

• orgastic

Etymology

From Ancient Greek.
The historically "correct" form is orgastic. Nouns from Ancient Greek that end in -sm regularly form adjectives ending in -stic: for example, enthusiasm / enthusiastic, sarcasm / sarcastic. By way of counterexample, the ahistorical -mic also appears in the terms protoplasmic and cataclysmic (instead of *protoplastic and *cataclystic).

Adjective

orgasmic (comparative more orgasmic, superlative most orgasmic)

1. (not comparable) Of or relating to orgasms.
2. (comparable) Prone to or capable of having orgasms.
   • 2000, Wendy Shalit, A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue, page 171:

     Seemingly every year, another study announces that married women are more orgasmic than single women.

   • 2009, Barbara Keesling, The Good Girl's Guide to Bad Girl Sex, page 41:

     They've helped non-orgasmic women become orgasmic, they've helped orgasmic women become more orgasmic, and they've helped many women experience their first multiple orgasms (we'll talk about that later!).

   • 2010, Anonymised diarist, in Bettina Arndt, What Men Want in Bed, 2012, page 266:

     The gentler the sensation or touch the more orgasmic I am.

3. Very exciting or stimulating.

   It must be an orgasmic experience to be an astronaut and see the Earth as a little, colourful marble surrounded by blackness.

Related terms

• orgasm

Derived terms

Translations

Romanian

Etymology

French orgasmique

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [or??asmik]

Adjective

orgasmic m or n (feminine singular orgasmic?, masculine plural orgasmici, feminine and neuter plural orgasmice)

1. orgasmic

Declension

Synonyms

• orgastic

Related terms

• orgasm