Meanings
- uncountablehuman sciencesThe making of vulgar writings or drawings, especially when done involuntarily.
Some speculate that Mozart the musician had coprographia.
2005, Jean-Ronel Corbier, Optimal Treatment for Children with Autism and Other Neuropsychiatric Conditions, page 433 more examples
Symptoms such as mental coprolalia (the thinking of obscenities), coprographia (the writing of obscenities) and mental palilalia are usually unrecognized unless specifically asked about.
1995, Mary Robertson, Valsamma Eapen, Movement and Allied Disorders in Childhood, page 2Trimble (199 ) has noted tatooing in some individuals with Tourette's disorder and also coprographia.
1995, James C. Harris, Developmental Neuropsychiatry, page 477Examination of the 374 letters written by Wolfgang Mozart shows scatological writing (coprographia) in 39, or 10.5%, which mention shit (29 times), arse and arse hole (27), muck (17), fart (6), piddling or pissing (6), but without the words being placed illogically, if not inappropriately.
2004, F Clifford Rose, Neurology Of The Arts: Painting, Music And Literature, page 325
Origin
From copro- (“feces”) + -graphia.
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