Both Uses of
galvanic
in
Brave New World
- The President switched off the music and, with the final note of the final stanza, there was absolute silence—the silence of stretched expectancy, quivering and creeping with a galvanic life.†
p. 82.9 *
- Ooh-ah!" the stereoscopic lips came together again, and once more the facial erogenous zones of the six thousand spectators in the Alhambra tingled with almost intolerable galvanic pleasure.†
p. 168.5
Definition:
pertaining to or producing electric current -- especially that created by a chemical action
or:
of an emotional reaction as though caused by an electric shock or by electric current
or:
of an emotional reaction as though caused by an electric shock or by electric current