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Definition of Tribadism
1. Noun. A form of lesbianism that simulates heterosexual intercourse.
Definition of Tribadism
1. Noun. Lesbianism. ¹
2. Noun. Now specifically, a form of lesbian intercourse involving the rubbing together of two partners' vulvae. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tribadism
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Tribadism
1. Lesbianism, particularly as practiced by a tribade. Origin: G. Tribo, to rub (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tribadism
Literary usage of Tribadism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1885)
"tribadism among female insane patients in insane hospitals. Out of two hundred
insane patients under treatment at Pavia ten were addicted to this practice, ..."
2. Legal Medicine by Charles Meymott Tidy (1884)
"A. tribadism. Without disputing that sexual aberrations leading to unnatural and
immoral practices may not be unknown between woman and woman, ..."
3. A Text-book of Legal Medicine and Toxicology by Walter Stanley Haines (1904)
"The medicolegal importance of tribadism, or Lesbian love, is comparatively slight.
... Those given to tribadism commonly resort to a minor vicious practice ..."
4. Alienist and Neurologist (1893)
"Lombroso§ states that tribadism has been far from infrequently observed in Italian
insane hospitals. It is often introduced by nymphomaniacs, ..."
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