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VOYEURISM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does voyeurism mean?
• VOYEURISM (noun)
The noun VOYEURISM has 1 sense:
1. a perversion in which a person receives sexual gratification from seeing the genitalia of others or witnessing others' sexual behavior
Familiarity information: VOYEURISM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A perversion in which a person receives sexual gratification from seeing the genitalia of others or witnessing others' sexual behavior
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("voyeurism" is a kind of...):
paraphilia (abnormal sexual activity)
Derivation:
voyeuristic; voyeuristical (of or relating to voyeurs or voyeurism)
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