English Explanatory Dictionary

contrectation

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The initial stage of the sexual act involving manual contact and tumescence; sexual foreplay.
  2. A touching or handling; manipulation.

Word forms

contrectation contrectations

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin contrectātio, from contrectō (“to touch”).

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