Antedating of "Orgasmic

[Fred Shapiro]

The best correction I have gotten so far from readers of The Yale Book of
Quotations is someone pointing out that the famous line from The Great
Gatsby was intended by Fitzgerald to read "orgastic future," not
"orgiastic future."

Here's an antedating of the related term "orgasmic":

orgasmic (OED3 1928)

1923 _Amer. Jrnl. Psychol._ 34: 460 (JSTOR)  Probably the best example of
orgasmic type of feeling reaction can be found in the sex reactions.

Fred Shapiro


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