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karezza

Pronunciation: /kɑˈɹɛtsə/

The English word “karezza” has 1 meaning listed here.

noun

  1. Non-religious spiritual sexual practices that draw upon tantric techniques of body control but do not involve any of tantra's cultural or iconographic symbolism; intended to promote birth control, equality for women, and marital pleasure and fidelity.

Etymology

Coined by Alice Bunker Stockham from Italian carezza (“caress”). Doublet of caress.

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