coprophenomenon

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English

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Etymology

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From copro- +‎ phenomenon.

Noun

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coprophenomenon (plural coprophenomena)

  1. (psychiatry) Any psychopathological phenomenon (in particular an automatic behaviour or preoccupation) that involves obscenity or faeces, such as coprolalia, copropraxia, coprophilia and so forth.