Orgasmic
Alternative forms
Origin
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).
Full definition of orgasmic
Adjective
orgasmic
- (uncomparable) Of or relating to orgasms.
- (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.
- 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.