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noun
Bonding through physical (touch, skin-to-skin) contact; particularly between family members, relatives and loved ones.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: South-Korea, uncountable
Qualifier: particularly Japan
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Spending time together naked for social bonding.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Phono-semantic matching of Japanese スキンシップ (sukinshippu), itself a wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism) derived from English skin + -ship, or from English skin + kinship. It is first recorded in English in 1966 according to the OED. In Japanese, this form was also observed in the Latin script as early as 1955.
Across languages
3 source translations are retained for this English entry.
