Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act or practice of deliberately behaving so as to attract attention.
- noun Psychiatry A psychosexual disorder marked by the compulsive exposure of the genitals in public.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A form of sexual perversion characterized by exposure of the person to others, without any attempt at concealment or any evidence of shame.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The practice or character
trait ofdeliberately drawingattention to oneself. - noun pathology The practice or character
trait of deliberately displaying one'sgenitals ,nipples , orbuttocks in public.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun extravagant and conspicuous behavior intended to attract attention to yourself
- noun the perverse act of exposing and attracting attention to your own genitals
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Examples
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This is not only the case in exhibitionism or voyeurism, but in sadism, too.
The Noodle Place 2007
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This is not only the case in exhibitionism or voyeurism, but in sadism, too.
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It seems probable that a form of erotic symbolism somewhat similar to exhibitionism is to be found in the rare cases in which sexual gratification is derived from throwing ink, acid or other defiling liquids on women's dresses.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy Havelock Ellis 1899
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One of the priests admitted at the time to sexual abuse and the others were prosecuted at the time for "exhibitionism" and a sexual act with a minor, a 17-year-old.
In Church Scandal, Dioceses Take Lead Vanessa Furhmans 2010
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Even his lies, incompetence, and mangled syntax can be negative exhibitionism, meaning a manner whereby he generates the negative assessments that, emotionally, he expects to encounter from others.
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I know from personal experience that this kind of exhibitionism is hard to resist.
Mothers, Don't Let Your Babies Turn into Celebrities: Evgenia Peretz Peretz, Evgenia 2008
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So by deint of elimination, we must assume that I'm into "exhibitionism".
Archive 2006-04-01 fusenumber8 2006
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Perhaps what's different with your kind of exhibitionism is that this doll talks!
thinking with my fingers Torill 2001
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Perhaps what's different with your kind of exhibitionism is that this doll talks!
Archive 2001-07-01 Torill 2001
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Someone mentioned to me that there's an element of "exhibitionism" in myself by having a diary like this.
chubbychic Diary Entry chubbychic 2001
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