PARAPHILIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does paraphilia mean? 

• PARAPHILIA (noun)
  The noun PARAPHILIA has 1 sense:

1. abnormal sexual activity

  Familiarity information: PARAPHILIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PARAPHILIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Abnormal sexual activity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("paraphilia" is a kind of...):

perversion; sexual perversion (an aberrant sexual practice)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "paraphilia"):

exhibitionism; immodesty (the perverse act of exposing and attracting attention to your own genitals)

fetichism; fetishism (sexual arousal or gratification resulting from handling a fetish (or a specific part of the body other than the sexual organs))

paedophilia; pedophilia (a sexual attraction to children)

voyeurism (a perversion in which a person receives sexual gratification from seeing the genitalia of others or witnessing others' sexual behavior)

zoophilia; zoophilism (a sexual attraction to animals)

paederasty; pederasty (sexual relations between a man and a boy (usually anal intercourse with the boy as a passive partner))