skinship.
Bonding through physical (touch, skin-to-skin) contact; particularly between family members, relatives and loved ones.
Meaning & usage
Bonding through physical (touch, skin-to-skin) contact; particularly between family members, relatives and loved ones.
Spending time together naked for social bonding.
Where this word comes from
Phono-semantic matching of Japanese スキンシップ (sukinshippu), itself a wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism) derived from English skin + -ship, or as a blend from English skin + kinship. It is first recorded in English in 1966 according to the OED. In Japanese, this form was also observed in the Latin script as early as 1955.
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.