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Orgiastic

adjective
1.
Used of frenzied sexual activity.
2.
Used of riotously drunken merrymaking.  Synonyms: bacchanal, bacchanalian, bacchic, carousing.  "Carousing bands of drunken soldiers" , "Orgiastic festivity"





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"Orgiastic" Quotes from Famous Books



... day, I become more of a bewildered child; I cannot get used to this world, to procreation, to heredity, to sight, to hearing, the commonest things are a burthen. The prim, obliterated, polite surface of life, and the broad, bawdy and orgiastic—or maenadic—foundations, form a spectacle to which no habit reconciles me. R. L. Stevenson: ...
— The Varieties of Religious Experience • William James


Words linked to "Orgiastic" :   orgy, drunk, sexy, inebriated, bacchic, bacchanalian, intoxicated


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