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Definition of Exhibitionism

1. Noun. Extravagant and conspicuous behavior intended to attract attention to yourself.

2. Noun. The perverse act of exposing and attracting attention to your own genitals.

Definition of Exhibitionism

1. Noun. The practice or character trait of deliberately drawing attention to oneself. ¹

2. Noun. (pathology) The practice or character trait of deliberately displaying one's genitals, nipples, or buttocks in public. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Exhibitionism

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Exhibitionism

1. A disorder in which the act of exposing the genitals to an unsuspecting stranger produces sexual excitement with no attempt at further sexual activity with the stranger. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Exhibitionism

exheredations exhereditation exhibit exhibitable exhibited exhibiter exhibiters exhibiting exhibition exhibition area

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exhibitive exhibitor exhibitors exhibitory exhibitry exhibits exhilarant exhilarate

Literary usage of Exhibitionism

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

1. Diseases of the nervous system: A Text-book of Neurology and Psychiatry by Smith Ely Jelliffe, William Alanson White (1917)
"exhibitionism.—Sexual gratification by exposing the genital organs. Necrophilia.—The desire to have sexual congress with a dead body. ..."

2. Medicolegal Aspects of Moral Offenses by Léon Henri Thoinot, Arthur Wisswald Weysse (1911)
"exhibitionism. This morbid type was created by Lasegue; ... Summary study of exhibitionism in cases of weak intellect, general paralysis, senile dementia, ..."

3. The Neurotic Constitution: Outlines of a Comparative Individualistic by Alfred Adler (1917)
"... HOMOSEXUALITY AND PERVERSION AS A SYMBOL, MODESTY AND exhibitionism, CONSTANCY AND INCONSTANCY, JEALOUSY A PHENOMENON often noted in neurotics is their ..."

4. Man's unconscious passion by Wilfrid Lay (1920)
"exhibitionism Two other partial trends, beside Sadism and Masochism, enter in as components of the love instinct, and are normally characteristic of all ..."

5. The Modern Treatment of Nervous and Mental Diseases by William Alanson White, Smith Ely Jelliffe (1913)
"This is exhibitionism. Several writers have pointed out that at puberty, ... In adults exhibitionism is more definitely a symbol of coitus, but its forms ..."

6. Nervous and mental disease monograph series (1913)
"B. The Deviations of the Sexual Instinct: Inversion, Perversion, Fetichism, Sadism, Masochism, exhibitionism, etc. C. Sexuality of Neurotics. ..."

7. Freud's Theories of the Neuroses by Eduard Hitschmann (1913)
"B. The Deviations of the Sexual Instinct: Inversion, Perversion, Fetichism, Sadism, Masochism, exhibitionism, etc. C. Sexuality of Neurotics. ..."

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