alvinophilia

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/ælˌvaɪnəˈfɪliə//ælˌvɪnəˈfiljə/

noun

Synonym of alvinolagnia.

Scrabble 20

Meanings

nounalvinophilia (uncountable)
  1. uncountableSynonym of alvinolagnia.

    He also may have been experiencing genuine alvinophilia, the navel fetish that falls about midway on the relative frequency range of those unusual sexual compulsions known as paraphilias (Scorolli, et al., 2007).

    2017, Robert J Belton, “Forcing Insight with Sight and the Availability Heuristic”, in Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo and the Hermeneutic Spiral
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    This case report describes the development of problematic addictive sexual behaviour, possibly as a result of other psychiatric comorbidities including obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), alvinophilia, and obsessional fetishism.

    2016 March, R. Vella Baldacchino, J. Vella Baldacchino, “From hero to zero: The manifestation of addictive problematic sexual behaviour”, in European Psychiatry, volume 33, number S1

    Synonyms: alvinolagnia

Synonyms & antonyms

nounSynonym of alvinolagnia.

Origin

  1. Latinalvus“belly”
  2. Englishalvinophilia

From Latin alvus (“belly”) + -ine + o + -philia (See also alvine)

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