Crossword-Solution: ERETHISM
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Erethism | n. | A morbid degree of excitement or irritation in an organ. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
|---|---|---|
| ERETHISM | anagram | ETHERISM, THEMISER |
We have 4 clues for the answer “ERETHISM”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| Excessive irritability | 1 answer |
| Physical irritability | 1 answer |
| abnormally high degree of irritability or sensitivity in any part of the body | 1 answer |
| irritability | 30 answers |
✏️ Suggest another clue
Know another question for crossword solution "ERETHISM"? Please add your clue to the biggest crossword databank now!
Kind of apple
?
E
?
A
?
T
?
E
?
R
Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETEAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
8 +1
New Suggestion for "ERETHISM"
Related word tools
Sentences with ERETHISM (5)
Perhaps they expected to find no living things—certainly no intelligent living things.” “A shell in the pit,” said I, “if the worst comes to the worst, will kill them all.” The intense excitement of the events had no doubt left my perceptive powers in a state of erethism.
Never before was there so sudden a flux and conflux of artistic desire, such aspiration in the soul of man, such rage of passion, such fainting fever, such cerebral erethism.
The unusual development of the genital organs reacts upon the entire system, and produces a state of peculiar activity and excitability, known as the condition of 'erethism.'" "It is a remarkable fact, in this connection, that the female of these animals will allow the approaches of the male only during and immediately after the oestral period; that is, just when the egg is recently discharged, and ready for impregnation.
The genital organs are thus brought, at first, into a state of extreme erethism, so that the motion of the horse is sufficient to produce a discharge of seminal fluid, while at the same time the pressure of the body on the animal's back--for the riding is done without a saddle--interferes with their proper nutrition.
But erethism, as we shall see in another chapter upon the analysis of the sex impulse, is not confined to the sexual organs, but is distributed throughout the entire body, especially through the vascular and nervous systems.
Quotes with ERETHISM (1)
A shell in the pit," said I, "if the worst comes to worst will kill them all." The intense excitement of the events had no doubt left my perceptive powers in a state of erethism. I remember that dinner table with extraordinary vividness even now. My dear wife's sweet anxious face peering at me from under the pink lampshade, the white cloth with it silver and glass table furniture — for in those days even philosophical writers had luxuries — the crimson-purple wine in my glass…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1971–1988).