exhibitionism

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English exhibition

Proto-Indo-European *-id-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti

Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)

Proto-Indo-European *-mos

Proto-Indo-European *-mós

Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)

Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.

English -ism

English exhibitionism

From exhibition + -ism.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛksɪˈbɪʃənɪzm/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

exhibitionism (countable and uncountable, plural exhibitionisms)

1. The practice or character trait of deliberately drawing attention to oneself.
2. The practice or character trait of deliberately displaying one's genitals, female nipples, or buttocks in public for sexual gratification.
   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 68:

     The dance consisted of sexual exhibitionism, reeling and swaying as if in a state of intoxication, erotic bodily movements, and denudation.

   • 2012 December 9, Paris Lees, “Transgender people get a status update”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Yes, really. Blanchard has expanded the DSM's "paraphilia" section (where crimes such as paedophilia and exhibitionism go) to include transvestic disorder.

Related terms

• exhibit
• exhibitionist
• autagonistophilia

Translations

practice of drawing attention to oneself

• Armenian: էքսհիբիցիոնիզմ (ēkʻshibicʻionizm)
• Bulgarian: ексхибициони́зъм m (ekshibicionízǎm)
• Catalan: exhibicionisme m
• Czech: exhibicionismus m, exhibicionizmus m
• Dutch: exhibitionisme (nl)
• Finnish: ekshibitionismi (fi)
• French: exhibitionnisme (fr) m
• Galician: exhibicionismo (gl) m
• Georgian: ექსჰიბიციონიზმი (ekshibicionizmi)
• German: Exhibitionismus (de) m
• Greek: επιδειξιομανία (el) f (epideixiomanía)
• Italian: esibizionismo (it) m
• Portuguese: exibicionismo (pt) m
• Romanian: exhibiționism (ro) n
• Russian: эксгибициони́зм (ru) m (eksgibicionízm)
• Serbo-Croatian: егзибиционизам m, egzibicionizam m
• Spanish: exhibicionismo (es) m
• Swedish: exhibitionism (sv) c
• Ukrainian: ексгібіціоні́зм m (ekshibicionízm)
• Welsh: arddangosiaeth f

practice of displaying one's private bodily parts in public

• Catalan: exhibicionisme m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 暴露癖 (bàolùpǐ), 露陰癖 / 露阴癖 (zh) (lùyīnpǐ), 露體癖 / 露体癖 (lùtǐpǐ)

• Esperanto: ekshibicio, elmontremo
• Finnish: pröystäilynhalu
• French: exhibitionnisme (fr) m
• Galician: exhibicionismo (gl) m
• Georgian: ექსჰიბიციონიზმი (ekshibicionizmi)
• German: Exhibitionismus (de) m
• Greek: επιδειξιομανία (el) f (epideixiomanía)
• Italian: esibizionismo (it) m
• Japanese: 露出症 (ja) (ろしゅつしょう, roshutsushō)
• Korean: 노출증(露出症) (nochuljeung)
• Polish: ekshibicjonizm (pl) m
• Portuguese: exibicionismo (pt) m
• Romanian: exhibiționism (ro) n
• Russian: эксгибициони́зм (ru) m (eksgibicionízm)
• Spanish: exhibicionismo (es) m
• Swedish: exhibitionism (sv) c

Swedish

Noun

exhibitionism c

1. (pathology) exhibitionism (strong desire to display one's genitals, nipples, or buttocks in public)
2. exhibitionism (strong desire to draw attention to oneself)

Declension

Declension of exhibitionism

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	exhibitionism	exhibitionisms
	definite	exhibitionismen	exhibitionismens
plural	indefinite	—	—
	definite	—	—

Related terms

• exhibitionist

See also

• blotta sig (“expose oneself”)
• blottare

References

• “exhibitionism”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “exhibitionism”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “exhibitionism”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• Svensk MeSH
• Fula Ordboken