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Definition of Exhibitionist

1. Noun. Someone with a compulsive desire to expose the genitals.

2. Noun. Someone who deliberately behaves in such a way as to attract attention.

Definition of Exhibitionist

1. Noun. One who attempts to draw attention to himself or herself by his or her behaviour. ¹

2. Noun. One who exposes his or her genitalia (or female nipples) in public. ¹

3. Adjective. compulsively seeking attention ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Exhibitionist

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Exhibitionist

1. One who engages in exhibitionism. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Exhibitionist

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Literary usage of Exhibitionist

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Medicolegal Aspects of Moral Offenses by Léon Henri Thoinot, Arthur Wisswald Weysse (1911)
"A case of a somnambulant exhibitionist. WE must understand by this term acts of indecent exposure committed by individuals whose pathological cerebral ..."

2. The Theory of Psychoanalysis by Carl Gustav Jung (1915)
"This dream connects the father, without any doubt, with the exhibitionist. This must be done for some reason. Did something happen with the father, ..."

3. Nervous and mental disease monograph series (1915)
"The night after the patient told me this, she dreamed of a man in a gray suit, who seemed about to do in front of her what the exhibitionist had done. ..."

4. Anomalies and curiosities of medicine by George Milbry Gould, Walter Lytle Pyle (1901)
"In viewing the feats of strength of the exhibitionist we must bear in consideration the numerous frauds perpetrated. A man of extraordinary strength ..."

5. The Elements of Practical Psycho-analysis by Paul Bousfield (1922)
"... one finds amongst other complexes present a strong Oedipus Complex, a homosexual complex, an anal-erotic complex, and an exhibitionist complex. ..."

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