Meanings
- formaluncountablelifestyleParaphilic infantilism with oneself in the role of the infant or toddler, wearing diapers, engaging in child-like activities and engaging with childish paraphernalia; a kink in which one imagines themselves as a baby or toddler, part of ABDL.
Autonepiophilia is when the paraphilic individual behaves like a child, usually in wearing diapers as a necessary part of sexual activity.
2007, Fouad R. Kandeel, Male Sexual Dysfunction: Pathophysiology and Treatment, page 892 more examples
With one kind of chronophilia called autonepiophilia, sexual arousal and pleasure are dependent on, and responsive to, pretending to be a baby in diapers and having one's sexual partner play along.
2004, Nancy Butcher, The Strange Case of the Walking CorpseInfantilism, also known as autonepiophilia (Money, 1986) is a paraphilia characteristic of a masquerade in which an individual is symbolically transformed back to infancy.
2006, Eric W. Hickey, Sex Crimes and Paraphilia, page 355Synonyms: adult baby syndrome
Synonyms & antonyms
nounParaphilic infantilism with oneself in the role of the infant or toddler, wearing diapers, engaging in child-like activities and engaging with childish paraphernalia; a kink in which one imagines themselves as a baby or toddler, part of ABDL.
Origin
From auto- + nepiophilia. Coined by New Zealand-American psychologist and sexologist John Money in 1986.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
French autonépiophilie
- autonépiophilieParaphilic infantilism
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with autonepiophilia
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