anorgasmia

Also an·or·gas·my

[an-awr-gaz-mee-uh]

noun

1. inability to experience sexual orgasm.

Other Word Forms

• anorgasmic adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of anorgasmia¹

an- ¹ + orgasm + -ia

Example Sentences

The most immediately pressing one was what the Internet had taught me to call—clinically, impersonally, at a safe distance from my mortification—anorgasmia.

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But for less common problems, such as anorgasmia, science does not yet have much to offer.

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They were anxious, guilty, angry, sad and afraid — like women who experience anorgasmia.

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A significant percentage of women experience anorgasmia, as do a smaller number of men.

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But, at some level, people are also strangers to their partners, and he may actually be more worried about his anorgasmia during sex with you than he is letting on.

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