Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Ticklish character or quality.
- noun Unsteady, unstable, or insecure state or character: as, the ticklishness of a seat or of a boat.
- noun Difficulty; difficult, perplexing, or critical character or state: as, the ticklishness of some undertaking.
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- noun The property of being
ticklish .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The ticklishness is a response to being touched in a certain way by another person.
The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza Block, Lawrence 1980
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I followed, almost unaware of the ticklishness of the exploit to a tyro, so buoyed up was I by her example and by my scorn of the weaklings for'ard.
CHAPTER XXXIV 2010
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Ben eased his body against hers, patiently working past her ticklishness.
Parents Behaving Badly Scott Gummer 2011
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Ben eased his body against hers, patiently working past her ticklishness.
Parents Behaving Badly Scott Gummer 2011
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She had heard somewhere that ticklishness made girls more appealing.
Labor Policy John Dermot Woods 2010
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"In cases such as yours," they began, "let's speak frankly, in cases of ... amputation, it is not uncommon to encounter the selfsame itches, burns, ticklishness shooting as before from the direction of the ... amputee."
Bradley Burston: A Place at the Passover Table - for Pharoah 2009
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She shivered beneath his touch, a reflex he almost mistook for ticklishness until she grasped his hand and pressed it beneath the lapel of her uniform, wanting him to repeat the caress.
Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004
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She shivered beneath his touch, a reflex he almost mistook for ticklishness until she grasped his hand and pressed it beneath the lapel of her uniform, wanting him to repeat the caress.
Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004
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She shivered beneath his touch, a reflex he almost mistook for ticklishness until she grasped his hand and pressed it beneath the lapel of her uniform, wanting him to repeat the caress.
Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004
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She shivered beneath his touch, a reflex he almost mistook for ticklishness until she grasped his hand and pressed it beneath the lapel of her uniform, wanting him to repeat the caress.
Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004
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