English

Noun

skinship ‎(uncountable)

1. bonding through physical contact
   • 1994, Nicole Landry Sault, Many Mirrors: Body Image and Social Relations, Rutgers University Press, ISBN 9780813520803, page 311:

     In Mexico, interdependence among people in emphasized and expressed through cosleeping and "skinship." … A similar type of "skinship" also exists throughout Mexico—all one had to do is look at the way people walk or sit together. … women are always patting touching ...

   • 2015, LT Wolf, The World King (fiction), ISBN 978-1-312-37454-6:

     However, there were times that folks needed that skinship to feel hearten'd and Dan often felt when others had that need.

Translations

Anagrams

• kinships

Usage notes

This word is mainly in use in Japan and South Korea and is rarely or never used by native English speakers.