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noun
A paraphilia for observing sexually stimulating scenes, as a substitute for participation in a sexual relationship.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, psychology, sciences
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Synonyms: scopophilism
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *speḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *spéḱyeti Proto-Hellenic *sképťomai Ancient Greek σκέπτομαι (sképtomai) Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Hellenic *-ós ▲ Ancient Greek -ος (-os)influ. Ancient Greek -ός (-ós) Ancient Greek σκοπός (skopós) Proto-Indo-European *bhil- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *bhil-o-s Ancient Greek φῐ́λος (phĭ́los) Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh2 Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek φῐλῐ́ᾱ (phĭlĭ́ā)der. English -philia English scopophilia From Ancient Greek σκοπός (skopós, “watcher”) + English -philia. First attested in the 1920s. The alternative spellings scoptophilia and skoptophilia originated as mistakes in the translations of the works of Austrian psychiatrist Sigmund Freud (1856–1939).
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