erection
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ecclesiastical
lifestyle
medicine
physiology
religion
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ērectiō, ērectiōnis, noun of action from perfect passive participle ērectus, from verb erigō, from prefix ē- (“out of”) + regō, + action suffix -iō.
Inflected forms:
form: erections
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of building or putting up or together of something.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Anything erected or built.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The Empire State Building was once the world's tallest erection.
If any serious number of deck erections have been left unfaired, these percentages will be too low.
gloss: Formal approval and official establishment of an institution such as a society or a monastery by higher church authorities.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: There is some obscurity attaching to the only other one of those alleged erections of parishes, the case of Foot Dee, near Aberdeen.
If the erection of a society is made with pontifical authority, then the society is one of pontifical legal status from its inception.
Concerns for its usefulness to the particular church and the institute should be seriously considered by the diocesan bishop and the major superior before the canonical erection of a house takes place.
gloss: The physiological process by which erectile tissue, such as a penis or clitoris, becomes erect by being engorged with blood.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: I think that the case also demonstrates some singular aspects of the penis as a narrator of tales, specifically the way in which the erection of a penis falls outside a man's conscious control and therefore threatens a carefully constructed master legal narrative in which bodily self-control graphically represents the self-government contemplated by a democratic legal society.
There are men who say they cannot bear to show themselves naked before women unless in a state of erection; and indeed through erection the flesh becomes activity, potency, […]
A marriage was only consummated via erection, penetration, and insemination intra vas.
gloss: The state or quality of being erect from engorgement with blood.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: […] but our experienc'd matron very soon, by chafing it with her hands, brought it to swell to that size and erection I had before seen it up to.
Older men typically require longer periods of time to achieve erection and reach orgasm.
A very rare complication is priapism, where the penis maintains its erection for many hours.
gloss: A penis or clitoris that is erect.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: He placed his newspaper on his lap to hide his erection.
Nothing is more short-lived than the erection; like the crocus of spring, it is there for a moment, and then it is gone; one moment the penis is small, soft, and insignificant, and then in the next it is hard, rigid, and three and four times its previous size.
The surge of hormones during puberty means you might have lots of erections, even when you don't want them—like during school.
Prem was sure everyone could see his erection through his pants, everyone but Maya, who he had been careful to keep to his side all the time
He kissed her again, this time with a long, moist kiss that gave him an erection.
Synonyms: erection
lead in one's pencil
tentigo
tumescence
Related words: erect
erector
erect penis
erectile dysfunction
masturbate
penis
Derived words: erectionless
miserection
nonerection
piloerection
ptiloerection
re-erection
semierection
Translations:
lang: Central Bikol
word: paglatog
lang: Czech
word: ztopoření
lang: Czech
word: postavení
lang: Finnish
word: erektio
lang: Finnish
word: jäykistyminen
lang: Galician
word: erección
lang: Georgian
word: ერექცია
roman: erekcia
lang: Ancient Greek
word: στύμα
roman: stúma
lang: Hindi
word: स्तंभन
roman: stambhan
lang: Indonesian
word: ereksi
lang: Japanese
word: 勃起
roman: bokki
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: repbûn
lang: Latin
word: ērectiō
lang: Latin
word: tentīgō
lang: Latin
word: verpa
lang: Malayalam
word: ഉദ്ധാരണം
roman: uddhāraṇaṁ
lang: Polish
word: erekcja
lang: Polish
word: wzwód
lang: Portuguese
word: ereção
lang: Russian
word: эре́кция
roman: erékcija
lang: Spanish
word: erección
lang: Turkish
word: dikleşme
lang: Turkish
word: sertleşme
lang: Turkish
word: şahlanma
lang: Turkish
word: ereksiyon
lang: Ukrainian
word: ере́кція
roman: erékcija