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Orgastic vs Orgiastic - What's the difference?

orgastic | orgiastic |

As adjectives the difference between orgastic and orgiastic

is that orgastic is orgasmic (exciting or stimulating; relating to or prone to orgasm) while orgiastic is relating to an orgy; wild, uncontrolled.

orgastic

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Orgasmic (exciting or stimulating; relating to or prone to orgasm).
  • * 1926 , , The Great Gatsby , Penguin 2000, p. 171:
    • Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us.
  • * 1954 , Cornell University, Epoch , Volume 6, page 27,
    • There is surely no more orgastic torture for children than the cries of another child being punished.
  • * 1974 , Morton M. Hunt, Sexual behavior in the 1970s , page 214,
    • In the older half of our sample the nondevout women are somewhat more orgastic' than the devout, but in the younger half of the sample it is the devout who are more ' orgastic .
  • * 1976 , Benjamin J. Sadock, ?Harold I. Kaplan, ?Alfred M. Freedman (editors), The Sexual Experience , page 370,
    • However, Pomeroy's (1965) data are contradictory, in that he found prostitutes to be more orgastic than normal women.
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    orgiastic

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Relating to an orgy; wild, uncontrolled.
  • * 1919, Sax Rohmer,
    • Dancing was in progress, or, rather, one of those orgiastic ceremonies which passed for dancing during this pagan period.