skinship

英語

詞源

skin +‎ kinship組成的混成詞，亦可分析為skin +‎ -ship。早在1966年便在牛津英語詞典內有記載，可能是仿譯自日語 スキンシップ (sukinshippu)，其本身是一個可追溯到至早1955年的和製英語（日本創造的偽英語詞），另可能源自朝鮮語 스킨십 (seukinsip)（1971年或更晚）。日語內亦早在1955年就有拉丁字母書寫的該單詞。

名詞

skinship (不可數)

1. (特別用於日本，韓國) （愛人、親人間的）身體接觸
   • 1994, Nicole Landry Sault, Many Mirrors: Body Image and Social Relations‎^[1], Rutgers University Press, →ISBN，第 311 頁:

     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 ...

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   • 2015, LT Wolf, The World King (fiction), →ISBN:

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

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2. 裸身相處
   • (Can we date this quote?), Scott Clark, 「The Japanese Bath: Extraordinarily Ordinary」, 出自 Joseph Jay Tobin 編, Re-made in Japan: Everyday Life and Consumer Taste in a Changing Society‎^[2] (social science), Yale University Press, 出版於 1992，第 102 頁:

     This relationship of parents to children is especially enhanced by bathing together—commonly known as skinship (sukinshippu). Other groups, from businessmen or to neighboring housewives to hikers and classmates, often seek to increase the strength of a relationship by engaging in hadaka no tsukiai at a sentō, health center, or onsen.

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異序詞

• kinships