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osphresiolagnia

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

Sexual arousal through olfactory stimulation.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

Topics: human-sciences, medicine, psychoanalysis, psychology, sciences

Examples

  • 1910, Karl Abraham, Douglas Bryan, Alix Strachey (translators), The Man who Loved Corsets, reprinted in 1959, Harold Greenwald, Great Cases in Psychoanalysis, 1987, page 45, In the present case it turned out that the patient had passed through a stage which corresponded to smell-fetishism, and that after this a peculiar modification had taken place by which his osphresiolagnia (abnormal interest in odors [Ed.]) had been repressed and his pleasure in looking had been sublimated to pleasure in seeing foot-wear which had an æsthetic value.

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History

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ὄσφρησις (ósphrēsis, “sense of smell”) (from ὄζω (ózō, “to smell”)) + λαγνεία (lagneía, “lust, coition”).