Etymology

epiplaphilia

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Today it means: Sexual attraction to furniture; a paraphilia involving sexual arousal from furniture, sometimes specifically furniture designed for sexual purposes. Full definition →

Ancient Greek ἔπιπλα
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromἔπιπλα“furniture”
  2. English todayepiplaphilia

From Ancient Greek ἔπιπλα (épipla, “furniture”) + -philia. The term was coined by Dr. Mark Griffiths in 2013 as the counterpart to epiplaphobia.

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekἔπιπλα all →

epiplaphobia

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.