skinship

Meaning

Noun

• Bonding through physical (touch, skin-to-skin) contact; particularly between family members, relatives and loved ones.

Origin

• ; can also be formulated as skin + --ship. Recorded as early as 1966 by the OED; probably a , itself a pseudo-anglicism recorded to date back to at least 1955, or (1971 or older). In Japanese, this form was also observed in the Latin script as early as 1955.