noun
Meaning 1
Masturbation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated, formal, uncountable, usually
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
onanism
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /ˈəʊnəˌnɪzəm/
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US: /ˈoʊnəˌnɪzəm/
noun
Meaning 2
Ejaculating outside the vagina during intercourse; (the performing of) coitus interruptus.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated, formal, uncountable, usually
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
a method of birth control in which coitus is initiated but the penis is deliberately withdrawn before ejaculation
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: coitus interruptus, withdrawal method, withdrawal, pulling out
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: birth control, birth prevention, family planning
noun
Meaning 4
manual stimulation of the genital organs (of yourself or another) for sexual pleasure
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: masturbation
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: autoeroticism, autoerotism
Narrower terms: self-stimulation, self-abuse, frottage, jacking off, jerking off, hand job, wank
History
Etymology
From Onan + -ism. In the Book of Genesis, Onan, son of Judah, in fulfillment of the laws of levirate marriage was to impregnate his brother Er's widow, Tamar, in order to raise offspring from the union in his brother's name. In order to avoid raising descendants for his late brother, however, Onan "spilled his semen on the ground when he went in to his brother's wife, so that he would not give offspring to his brother" (Genesis 38:9).
Across languages
Translations
25 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Albanian: onanizëm — masturbation
- Armenian: օնանիզմ (ōnanizm) — masturbation
- Bulgarian: онанизъм (onanizǎm) — masturbation
- Catalan: onanisme — masturbation
- Chinese Mandarin: 自慰 (zìwèi) — masturbation
- Chinese Mandarin: 手淫 (shǒuyín) — masturbation
- Czech: onanie — masturbation
- Dutch: onanisme — masturbation
- Esperanto: onanismo — masturbation
- Finnish: onania — masturbation
- French: onanisme — masturbation
- German: Onanie — masturbation
- Greek: αυνανισμός (avnanismós) — masturbation
- Hebrew: אוֹנָנוּת (onanút) — masturbation
- Hindi: हस्तमैथुन (hastamaithun) — masturbation
- Hungarian: onánia — masturbation
- Indonesian: onani — masturbation
- Italian: onanismo — masturbation
- Japanese: オナニー (onanī) — masturbation
- Portuguese: onanismo — masturbation
- Romanian: onanism — masturbation
- Russian: онани́зм (onanízm) — masturbation
- Spanish: onanismo — masturbation
- Swedish: onani — masturbation
- Turkish: onanizm — masturbation