exhibitionism

English

Etymology

From exhibition +‎ -ism.

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, nipples, or buttocks in public for sexual gratification.
   • 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

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: 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: 露出狂 (ja) (ろしゅつきょう, roshutsukyō)
• 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 (SO)
• exhibitionism in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• exhibitionism in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• Svensk MeSH
• Fula Ordboken