Titillate means “to cause excitement, to arouse, to stimulate, in a pleasurable way.”
Titivate means “to make something more attractive with small changes, to spruce up, to decorate.”
Titillate is a positive word, but with highly sensual connotations. It can be used for any kind of sensory stimulation, and it can sound sexual, depending on the sentence:
This garlic soup will titillate your sense of taste. (not sexual)
Many in the audience found the dancer quite titillating. (sexual)
Titivate is an unusual word, rarely used and not recognized by most English speakers.
More Examples of “Titilate” in a Sentence
- Poppy reads aloud from a titillating book, interrupted at intervals by the others.
- Ward is hardly the first model to offer titillating content for a good cause.
- Winston continues to be a mixed bag of titillating potential and maddening carelessness.
- Anyone wanting a raunchy comedy with titillating displays of flesh definitely won’t get it.
- Here’s everything you’ve ever wanted to know about this titillating episode in human history.
More Examples of “Titivate” in a Sentence
- Thankfully, CeeLo had employed a squad of young, bendy-limbed sorts to titivate the stage.
- Being the person who just titivates others’ copy, an unseen and apparently drab activity, is altogether different.
- After each rejection the treaty was slightly titivated, with various declarations or opt-outs added, after which the voters were asked to pronounce again and then they said yes.
- Well, whatever it was, there was a whole heap of chasing one another through cobbly sets filled with extras titivated to be French peasants.
- He adds, “There is nothing naffer than titivating a cliché.” As Perry plays him, Christopher is a wonderful, spluttering spinning top, at once foolish, hilarious, and monstrous.