Meanings
- uncountableA paraphilia in which a person is sexually attracted to cartoon characters.
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2019 November 23, “Evolution may have answers to schediaphilia”, in Daily Times3 more examples
Crumb, as a cartoonist, also summons ideas of Schediaphilia
2006, Parkett Series with Contemporary Artists - Issue 78, page 36And when I say “peak crescendo,” I mean a graphic, heated and relatively lengthy sex scene between two of characters sure to inspire many viewers to seek help for schediaphilia.
2015 March 5, Ben Travers, “Review: ‘Archer’ Season 6 Episode 9, ‘Pocket Listing,’ Gets Graphic”, in IndieWireWe can also describe making love, bondage games, pedophilia, frotteurism, necrophilia, schediaphilia, autoerotic asphyxiation, and anthropophagolagnia as "sexual' (just to give a few examples), but we would not assume those behaviors were categorically motivated by the same deesires or resulted in something humane or admirable.
2018, Heather Salazar, Roderick Nicholls, The Philosophy of Spirituality, page 84Synonyms: fictosexuality, toonophilia, nijikon
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA paraphilia in which a person is sexually attracted to cartoon characters.
Origin
- Ancient Greekσχέδιος“something done or made offhand”
- Greekσχέδιο“drawing”
- Englishschediaphilia
From Greek σχέδιο (schédio, “drawing”) (from Ancient Greek σχέδιος (skhédios, “something done or made offhand”)) + -philia.
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