Adjective : a ticklish situation. ,He is ticklish about being interrupted. From Dictionary.com.
The ticklishness is a response to being touched in a certain way by another person. From Wordnik.com. [The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza]
She had heard somewhere that ticklishness made girls more appealing. From Wordnik.com. [Labor Policy] Reference
He goes on from that point to explain the ticklishness of this very freedom. From Wordnik.com. [Freedom But] Reference
Both modesty and ticklishness may be said to be characters which are no longer needed. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man] Reference
From this point of view the general ticklishness of the skin is a kind of body modesty. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man] Reference
You will, I hope, admit that the hellish problem is at least Nabokovian in its complexity and ticklishness. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
After a few minutes we were able to get a handle on our ticklishness and decided to give the big fish spa a try. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com Recent Updates] Reference
To regard tickling as an intellectual manifestation may cause surprise, more especially when it is remembered that ticklishness is. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man] Reference
The difference in ticklishness between the unmarried woman and the married woman corresponds to their difference in degree of modesty. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man] Reference
Such a view of ticklishness, as a kind of modesty of the skin, existing merely to be destroyed, need only be regarded as one of its aspects. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Mutiny of the Elsinore] Reference
We may well believe that in this early developed reflex activity we have the basis of that somewhat more complex ticklishness which appears somewhat later. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man] Reference
The mental element in tickling is indicated by the fact that even a child, in whom ticklishness is highly developed, cannot tickle himself; so that tickling is not a simple reflex. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man] Reference
Again, in ordinary routine practice I have observed that, though married women show no ticklishness during auscultation and percussion of the chest, this is by no means always so in young girls. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man] Reference
There is, however, one form of touch sensation -- that is to say, ticklishness -- which is of so special and peculiar a nature that it has sometimes been put aside in a class apart from all other touch sensations. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man] Reference
That is why Al rode oblivious to his surroundings, meditating no doubt upon the best means of preserving the integrity of the Sawtooth and at the same time soothing effectively the ticklishness of the situation of which he had complained. From Wordnik.com. [Sawtooth Ranch] Reference
That is why Al rode oblivious to his surroundings, meditating no doubt upon the best means of preserving the "integrity" of the Sawtooth and at the same time soothing effectively the ticklishness of the situation of which he had complained. From Wordnik.com. [The Quirt] Reference
The following remarks of Prof.A. A.lin may also be quoted in further explanation of the same theory: "So far as ticklishness is concerned, a very important factor in the production of this feeling is undoubtedly that of the summation of stimuli. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man] Reference
Weakness: those who have it in the latter form though they have made resolutions do not abide by them by reason of passion; the others are led by passion because they have never formed any resolutions at all: while there are some who, like those who by tickling themselves beforehand get rid of ticklishness, having felt and seen beforehand the approach of temptation, and roused up themselves and their resolution, yield not to passion; whether the temptation be somewhat pleasant or somewhat painful. From Wordnik.com. [Ethics] Reference
Modesty in relation to ticklishness. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man] Reference
Plus he kept wriggling with ticklishness. From Wordnik.com. [Sheylara.com] Reference
3 ... twist 'v'? nv fail to agitate our ticklishness:) take care babes ... we love u!!!. From Wordnik.com. [pangsuan Diary Entry] Reference
Stanley Hall and Allin in their investigation of the phenomena of tickling, largely carried out among young women teachers, found that in 60 clearly marked cases ticklishness was more marked at one time than another, "as when they have been 'carrying on,' or are in a happy mood, are nervous or unwell, after a good meal, when being washed, when in perfect health, when with people they like, etc.". From Wordnik.com. [Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man] Reference
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