anorgasmia

English

Noun

anorgasmia (uncountable)

1. (medicine) Failure to achieve orgasm.
   • 2012, Allen Lawrence, Laura Edwards, “Self-Help in Gynecological Practice”, in Martha Kirkpatrick, editor, Women’s Sexual Development: Explorations of Inner Space, page 273:

     On the other hand, a woman with a major or recurrent problem (VD, unplanned pregnancies, recurrent vaginal infection, anorgasmia, etc.) needs guidance to find the root of her problem: Has she “mismotivated” herself”? Has she lost her “healthy image” of herself?

   • 2018 June 8, anonymous author, “My life in sex: ‘After taking antidepressants, my genitals felt numb’”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     I've since discovered this side-effect isn't uncommon and has a name: PSSD (post-SSRI sexual dysfunction). I know men who also suffer with PSSD and struggle with the same genital numbness and anorgasmia, coupled with erectile dysfunction.

Hypernyms

• anaphrodisia

Translations

failure to achieve orgasm

• Czech: anorgasmie f
• Danish: anorgasme c
• Polish: anorgazmia (pl) f
• Portuguese: anorgasmia f
• Spanish: anorgasmia (es) f

Further reading

• “anorgasmia”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Italian

Noun

anorgasmia f (plural anorgasmie)

1. (medicine) anorgasmia (failure to achieve orgasm)

Further reading

• anorgasmia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Portuguese

Noun

anorgasmia f (usually uncountable, plural anorgasmias)

1. (medicine) anorgasmia (failure to achieve orgasm)

Further reading

• “anorgasmia”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /anoɾˈɡasmja/ [a.noɾˈɣ̞az.mja]
• Rhymes: -asmja
• Syllabification: a‧nor‧gas‧mia

Noun

anorgasmia f (plural anorgasmias)

1. (medicine) anorgasmia (failure to achieve orgasm)

Further reading

• “anorgasmia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28