Definition

1. Adjective:

   • Causing a slight prickling or stinging sensation: Describing a feeling on the skin, often like many small, light points of sensation, which can be pleasant, exciting, or slightly uncomfortable.
   • Causing excitement or anticipation: Describing a feeling of light, nervous, or thrilling excitement.

2. Noun:

   • A prickling somatic sensation: A physical feeling on the skin resembling many tiny, light pricks or stings.

Examples of Usage

• Adjective:

  • After her foot fell asleep, she felt a tingling sensation as the blood returned.
  • He felt a tingling excitement before going on stage.

• Noun:

  • She felt a tingling in her fingers from the cold.
  • The strange medicine caused a tingling all over his scalp.

Advanced Usage

• "to be tingling with": to be full of a particular excited or anticipatory feeling.
  • The audience was tingling with anticipation before the concert started.

Variants and Related Words

• Tingle (verb): to feel or cause a slight prickling or stinging sensation.
  • Her cheeks tingled in the frosty air.
• Tingle (noun): a tingling sensation.
  • A tingle of fear ran down his spine.

Synonyms

• Prickling (adj/n): causing or being a sensation of small, sharp points.
• Stinging (adj): causing a sharp, burning sensation (often stronger than tingling).
• Thrilling (adj): causing excitement and pleasure.

Related Idioms

• To send a tingle/tingling down someone's spine: to cause a sudden feeling of excitement, fear, or pleasure.
  • The ghost story sent a tingling down my spine.

Adjective

1. exciting by touching lightly so as to cause laughter or twitching movements

Noun

1. a somatic sensation as from many tiny prickles