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exhibitionism
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun exhibitionism has 2 senses
- exhibitionism(n = noun.communication) Array - extravagant and conspicuous behavior intended to attract attention to yourself; Array is a kind of fanfare, flash, ostentation
- exhibitionism(n = noun.act) immodesty - the perverse act of exposing and attracting attention to your own genitals; Array is a kind of paraphilia
Derived forms noun exhibitionist2, adjective exhibitionistic1
Derived form noun exhibitionist1
OXFORD DICTIONARY
exhibitionism, n.
1 a tendency towards display or extravagant behaviour.
2 Psychol. a mental condition characterized by the compulsion to display one's genitals indecently in public.
1 a tendency towards display or extravagant behaviour.
2 Psychol. a mental condition characterized by the compulsion to display one's genitals indecently in public.
Derivative
exhibitionist n. exhibitionistic adj. exhibitionistically adv.
THESAURUS
exhibitionism
active algolagnia, algolagnia, algolagny, amphierotism, autoeroticism, baring, bisexuality, blazon, boldness, bravura, brazenness, brilliancy, coprophilia, daring, dash, demonstration, denudation, desquamation, display, divestment, dramatics, eclat, etalage, excoriation, exfoliation, exhibition, exposure, false front, fanfaronade, fetishism, figure, flagrancy, flair, flaunt, flaunting, flourish, forwardness, heterosexuality, histrionics, homoeroticism, homosexualism, homosexuality, immodesty, impudicity, incest, incestuousness, indecent exposure, laying bare, lesbianism, manifestation, masochism, narcissism, necrophilia, notoriousness, pageant, pageantry, parade, paraphilia, passive algolagnia, pedophilia, removal, sadism, sadomasochism, sapphism, scotophilia, sexual inversion, sexual normality, sexual preference, sham, shamelessness, show, showing-off, spectacle, splash, splurge, staginess, stripping, swinging both ways, theatrics, transvestitism, tribadism, tribady, uncovering, unembarrassedness, unmodestness, vaunt, voyeurism, zooerastia, zoophilia
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