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alvinophilia

/ælˌvaɪnəˈfɪliə/

alvinophilia noun: synonym of alvinolagnia.

Noun

alvinophilia (uncountable)

  1. Synonym of alvinolagnia.
    • 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
    • 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
    Synonyms:
    alvinolagnia

Synonyms of alvinophilia

Origin of alvinophilia

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

Questions about alvinophilia

What does alvinophilia mean?
Alvinophilia means synonym of alvinolagnia.
What part of speech is alvinophilia?
Alvinophilia is a noun.
How do you pronounce alvinophilia?
Alvinophilia is pronounced /ælˌvaɪnəˈfɪliə/.

Words near alvinophilia in the dictionary

  1. alvinocaridids
  2. alvinocarids
  3. alvinoconchid
  4. alvinoconchids
  5. alvinolagnia
  6. alvinophilia
  7. Alvinos
  8. Alvira
  9. Alviras
  10. Alviri-Vidari
  11. Alvis

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