Usually means: Sensation of slight, sharp points.
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  1. prickling: Merriam-Webster
  2. prickling: Collins English Dictionary
  3. prickling: Vocabulary.com
  4. prickling: Wordnik
  5. prickling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. prickling: Wiktionary
  7. Prickling, prickling: Dictionary.com
  8. prickling: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Prickling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. prickling: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. prickling: Rhymezone
  12. Prickling: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. prickling: FreeDictionary.org
  14. prickling: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. Prickling: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prickling: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prickling: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (prickling)

▸ noun:  A sensation that prickles.

Similar:
tingle, stinging, painful, prickmedainty, tinger, bristling, creeps, bristler, irritant, flittering, more...

Opposite:
soothing, smooth, soft, gentle, calming

Types:
tingling, itching, stinging, numbness, pins and needles, formication, more...

Adjectives:
strange, slight, cold, faint, sudden, familiar, odd, peculiar, hot, uncomfortable, unpleasant

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Similar:
tingle, stinging, painful, prickmedainty, tinger, bristling, creeps, bristler, irritant, flittering, more...

Opposite:
soothing, smooth, soft, gentle, calming

Types:
tingling, itching, stinging, numbness, pins and needles, formication, more...

Adjectives:
strange, slight, cold, faint, sudden, familiar, odd, peculiar, hot, uncomfortable, unpleasant



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