Usually means: Blinking or winking of eyelid.
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  1. nictitation: Collins English Dictionary
  2. nictitation: Vocabulary.com
  3. nictitation: Wordnik
  4. nictitation: Wiktionary
  5. Nictitation, nictitation: Dictionary.com
  6. Nictitation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. nictitation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. nictitation: Rhymezone
  9. Nictitation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. nictitation: FreeDictionary.org
  11. nictitation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. nictitation: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nictitation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. nictitation: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (nictitation)

▸ noun:  Winking, blinking

Similar:
nictation, winking, connictation, eyewink, blinking, palpebration, blinker, wink-a-peep, winkfest, jaw winking, more...

Opposite:
staring, gaze, fixed look

Types:
wink, blink, flicker, flutter, glance, peek, squint, more...

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Similar:
nictation, winking, connictation, eyewink, blinking, palpebration, blinker, wink-a-peep, winkfest, jaw winking, more...

Opposite:
staring, gaze, fixed look

Types:
wink, blink, flicker, flutter, glance, peek, squint, more...



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