Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
/ˈfæsɪnəm/ · noun
(historical, occult) An ivory phallus used in certain ancient erotic rites..
Here are some brides of ten compelled to seat themselves on the fascinum, the virile ivory in the temples of classical scholarship.
Today people use a four-leaf clover, the pompom from a European sailor’s hat, the fascinum (winged phallus, some of which were found in the ruins of Pompeii and seemed to have done little good there), and so on.
Use fascinum when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Fascinum means (historical, occult) An ivory phallus used in certain ancient erotic rites..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Here are some brides of ten compelled to seat themselves on the fascinum, the virile ivory in the temples of classical scholarship.
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.