(ho-rip-uh-LAY-shuhn)
noun
The bristling of the body hair, as from fear or cold; goose bumps.
Etymology
Late Latin horripilatio, horripilation-, from Latin horripilatus, past participle of horripilare, to bristle with hairs : horrere, to tremble + pilare, to grow hair (from pilus, hair).
Usage
"The poor man frightened, terrified, alarmed, seized with a feeling of horripilation all over the body, and agitated in mind, reflects thus." — Translated By H. Kern, Saddharma-Pundarika or The Lotus of the True Law, Sacred Books of the East, Vol XXI, 1884.
"What is expressed here is an aversion that is both aesthetic and intimate, a horripilation of the sexual reflex that is perfectly captured by the word creep." — Lance Morrow & John Dickerson, Men: are they really that bad? Time, Feb 14, 1994.