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nocturnal emissions

nocturnal emissions is the plural of nocturnal emission.

Meaning of nocturnal emission

Noun

nocturnal emission (plural nocturnal emissions)

  1. An ejaculation or orgasm while asleep, often accompanied by an erotic dream.
    • In other stories of the midrashim, Adam, in penance for his fall, abstains from sexuality for 130 years, but he is not able to control his nocturnal emissions; in his dream state female spirits, the succubae, come and have intercourse with him, and with Adam's seed they give birth to demons.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 19

Questions about nocturnal emissions

What is nocturnal emissions the plural of?
Nocturnal emissions is the plural of nocturnal emission.

Words near nocturnal emissions in the dictionary

  1. nocturnal arches
  2. nocturnal arcs
  3. nocturnal deliria
  4. nocturnal delirium
  5. nocturnal emission
  6. nocturnal emissions
  7. nocturnal penile tumescence
  8. nocturnal penile tumescences
  9. nocturnal pollution
  10. nocturnal pollutions
  11. nocturnalism

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