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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 behaviorplay

  Familiarity information: VOYEURISM used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


VOYEURISM (noun)


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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