orgiastic

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὀργιαστικός (orgiastikós, “exciting”), from ὀργιαστής (orgiastḗs, “orgy celebrator”), from ὀργιάζειν (orgiázein, “to celebrate orgies”), from ὄργια (órgia).

• (US, UK) IPA^(key): /ˌɔː(ɹ)d͡ʒiˈæstɪk/

  Rhymes: -æstɪk

orgiastic (comparative more orgiastic, superlative most orgiastic)

1. Relating to an orgy; uncontrolled, wild. ^[1]
   • 1919, Sax Rohmer, Dope

     Dancing was in progress, or, rather, one of those orgiastic ceremonies which passed for dancing during this pagan period.

   • 1925, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, chapter 9, in The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1953, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 182:

     Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther … And one fine morning—

• agoristic

Borrowed from French orgiastique.

orgiastic m or n (feminine singular orgiastică, masculine plural orgiastici, feminine and neuter plural orgiastice)

1. orgiastic