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penetration (n.)
c. 1600, "insight, shrewdness," from Latin
penetrationem
(nominative
penetratio
) "a penetrating or piercing," noun of action from past participle stem of
penetrare
(see
penetrate
). The sexual sense is attested from 1610s.
