Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of a group of psychosexual disorders characterized by sexual fantasies, feelings, or activities involving a nonhuman object, a nonconsenting partner such as a child, or pain or humiliation of oneself or one's partner. Also called sexual deviation.
Wiktionary
- n. any sexual deviation, which is considered abnormal in some societies or which may prevent or hinder one's ability to receive reciprocal love
WordNet 3.0
- n. abnormal sexual activity
Etymologies
- From para- (“abnormal”) + -philia. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Dr. Wollert testified that if an individual were to commit 100 rapes over greater than a six-month period they still would not likely fit the definition of paraphilia deviant sexual disorder," Small wrote.”
“I think there ` s a term called paraphilia, which is just being interested in everything.”
“Lafferty's red herring usage of her favorite "paraphilia" or sexual deviation instead of sexual orientation or gender identity is a dead giveaway that she is attempting to feed off her readers 'fear and confusion.”
The Huffington Post: Bil Browning: TVC's Andrea Lafferty: A zombie queen in pastel
“Another storyteller outlined "paraphilia," an obscure word used in the New York penal code to denote all sexual perversions and how it was applied to him in his divorce proceedings.”
The Wall Street Journal: Gamut of Lives Viewed Under A Microscope
“Two words you're extremely unlikely to hear at a bar are "prosopagnosia" and "paraphilia," yet at the Pacific Standard bar in Park Slope, both are discussed at length.”
The Wall Street Journal: Gamut of Lives Viewed Under A Microscope
“Pedophilia: “paraphilia in which children are the preferred sexual object.””
The Volokh Conspiracy » Add Bad Ethics to the Problems of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”?
“The one paraphilia that remains absolutely verboten is pedophilia.”
“For example, take the paraphilia of “Frotteurism” as defined in the DSM-IV (Code #302. 89).”
“A simple paraphilia alone seems unlikely, as there are plenty of people who apparently share the fetish (as I discovered in the research).”
“The types of options for rehabilitation of even severe cases of paraphilia such need for medications suggest that his extreme condition might at least give rise to the question of an NCR defence.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘paraphilia’.
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Logophily: Words with "phil"
List of words containing the string phil-, -phil-, -phil, or -phile, such as philopatry, bibliophile, and neutrophil.
Greek: φιλία/φίλος, φιλια-/φιλο - love, loving, love of, fondness for, at...philopatry, bibliophile, neutrophil, thalassophily, stegophilist, philoxeny, psychrophile, logophily, photophilia, photophilous, heliophilous, philornithic and 148 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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phrontistery - p
from phrontistery.info
pustule, purulence, pushful, purser, purpureal, putative, purpure, purpresture, purloin, purline, purlieu, purlicue and 1766 more...
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words to describe people ~
theic, docile, droll, pallid, despondent, sallow, paraphilia, ascetic, grandiloquent, garrulous, charlatan
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Human Sexuality
paraphilia, salirophilia, shibari, open-list, phimosis, teleiophile, agapet, basorexia, Pomosexual, cybersex, outercourse, fornicate
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hildjj's Words
bookmarklet, demisemiquaver, zeitgeist, hermeneutics, oligarch, quisling, absinthe, mellifluent, verisimilitude, implacable, necrotic, nacreous and 243 more...
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Verba Dilecta
delectable, notate, pauciloquy, paucity, pauciloquent, paucify, interscapilium, uropygium, inferna, nota, equipollent, prepollent and 677 more...
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Mat8iou's interesting words
Words I've come across & want to remember.
bloviation, elginism, panegyric, infandous, boke, pangram, quine, pareto principle, panopticon, snib, escutcheon, bokeh and 129 more...
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Let's talk about sex
A collection of words about doing the nasty.
prurient, odalisque, soubrette, gravid, lochia, xenogamy, syngamy, zygote, pintle, hexaploid, seminal, hetaera and 232 more...
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Big Book #2 List
absolution, restitution, contrition, moratorium, nautical, nirvana, pandemonium, perennial, symposium, dialectic, dipsomaniacal, ecumenical and 117 more...
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sexual feelings
words describing the sexual parts of life
snog, shag, copulate, intercourse, paraphilia, carnal, fetish, fornicate, abstinence, foreplay, coitus, chastity and 119 more...
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Loxodont's list
circumambulate, atelectasis, paramount, therefore, apotropaic, facture, identity, dome, lecture, cannibal, catatonia, rite and 119 more...
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Words of the Times
Words discovered while reading The New York Times, each with a citation from the paper.
testilying, ghost talk, apneist, solastalgia, izakaya, hooker, telectroscope, airflyte, phomance, bromhidrosis, stinky feet, cupping and 482 more...
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♡LOVE and things like it♡
dedicated to my man Steven, without whom i would be addicted to drugs, lying in a gutter, hating myself, or hooking somewhere :)
affectionate, amative, amatory, amiable, ammophilous, amorous, ardent, attached to, attracted to, beloved, bewitching, bitten and 404 more...
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Kinky & Sexy
Sexy words along with unusual, obscure, and kinky words thrown into the mix.
paraphilia, capnolagnia, vincilagnia, dominatrix, stilettos, fetish, tryst, debauched, in flagrante delicto, demimonde, sultry, salacious and 15 more...
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legal words
inchoate, incarceration, judgment, sentence, attempt, finding, imprisonment, due process, certification, probable cause, abnormality, whereas and 59 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for paraphilia.
john “In 1996, when she worked as an assistant to a sexologist at the Center for Addiction and Mental Health, then called the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, she found herself the only woman on a floor of researchers investigating male sexual preferences and what are known as paraphilias — erotic desires that fall far outside the norm.�?
The New York Times, What Do Women Want?, by Daniel Bergner, January 22, 2009 Jan 24, 2009