Tribadism
//ˈtɹɪbədɪz(ə)m// noun
noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Lesbianism. uncountable
"Things changed when Théophile Gautier made tribadism a fashionable feature of French decadence, and Baudelaire reminded the world that it all started on Lesbos."
- 2 a form of lesbianism that simulates heterosexual intercourse wordnet
- 3 A sexual act in which two women rub their vulvas together. specifically, uncountable
"The Lesbian is the analogue among women of Persian love among men, and this perversion takes place in two ways, either by friction of the two female bodies, known as tribadism, or by the tongue, designated as cunnilinguism."
Example
More examples"Things changed when Théophile Gautier made tribadism a fashionable feature of French decadence, and Baudelaire reminded the world that it all started on Lesbos."
Etymology
From tribade + -ism.
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