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What does onanistic mean?

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Adjective
  1. Of or pertaining to masturbation (onanism).
  2. In a manner which suggests masturbation; hence, fruitless, self-congratulatory, self-absorbed, pointless.
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There's something that would feel, and be, very onanistic about that — you really shouldn't spend that much time thinking about yourself or what you're writing, because you could overthink it and become completely stymied.
His fiction seems motivated by a need to expose all that is mechanical, alienated, onanistic, and disembodied about male desire.
It is in this sense that the political world of Infinite Jest is perhaps best understood, for the masturbatory, Onanistic connotations of the name ONAN are hardly accidental.
Perhaps, then, it's a way to bring social interaction and the human touch into a solitary, at times almost onanistic, pursuit.
The director appears to be using Poulenc s opera simply as a support for bis own onanistic fantasy.
The adjectives corresponding to those words are respectively masturbatory and onanistic.

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