Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. psychology A paraphilia involving sexual attraction toward amputees.
Etymologies
- From the Ancient Greek ἀκρότομος (akrotomos, "having the top cut off") + φιλία (philia). Compare acrotomous. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“He distinguished apotemnophilia from "acrotomophilia" — a sexual attraction to amputees.”
“But I had never heard of apotemnophilia or acrotomophilia before the Falkirk story broke.”
“Nattress, who surveyed fifty people with acrotomophilia (he prefers the term "amelotasis") for a 1996 doctoral dissertation, says that much the same is true for devotees.”
“Reviewing the medical literature, one might conclude that apotemnophilia and acrotomophilia are extremely rare.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘acrotomophilia’.
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Sexuality & Gender
epicene, bi-curious, sapiosexual, blissom, genicon, pyrolagnia, renifleur, kinsey scale, shunamitism, cybersexual, tribadism, omnisexuality and 20 more...
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Brochettes of Random Palavery
Another of my random palavery lists for words or phrases that haven't yet found a place in one or more of my other lists.
nonexclusivity, adaptationist, paxillin, adduct, unblushingly cribbed, ptomaïne, microsievert, millisievert, too big to jail, tastemaker, tinsmithing, Nimzo-Indian and 1616 more...
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Love is a very strange thing
-philias
necrophilia, dendrophilia, androphilia, hemophilia, xenophilia, bibliophilia, biophilia, galeophilia, allophilia, coprophilia, acrotomophilia, apotemnophilia and 10 more...
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