Antedating of "Orgasmic

[Laurence Horn]

>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)
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>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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Ah, for the good old days when psychological research offered such
intuitively plausible results...

LH

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