aquaphilia

Noun

aquaphilia (uncountable)

1. A sexual attraction to general imagery of people in water, sexual acts in water, or watery environments.
   • aquaphilia, n. sexual fetish involving water or swimming; American The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition is my favorite — I love those underwater aquaphilia shots.2010, Alexis Munier, The Big Black Book of Very Dirty Words, F+W Media, →ISBN
   • ...aquaphilia fetishism (showing women as swimming or in swimming suits, introduction of the character in the rain, waterfalls, river, sea etc to emphasis the body contour)...2013, Kaustav Chakraborty (Ed.), Indian Texts & Representations: Destereotyped Perspectives, Lap Lambert Academic Publishing, →ISBN, page 116

   Synonyms:

   hydrophilia

2. A compulsive desire for water.
   • Lunacol was developed for the treatment of the astronauts' syndrome, luneurosis, a compulsive desire for water, or aquaphilia, and a wish to swim like a fish.1963, United States Congress, United States Senate, United States Committee on Government Operations, Interagency Coordination in Drug Research and Regulation: Testimony and exhibits (including...
   • Stalin's "aquaphilia", which required the damming up of every body of water for purposes of generating electricity, also left visible and invisible scars on the ecological map.1974, Marshall I. Goldman, “The Spoils of Progress: Environmental Pollution in the Soviet Union”, in Technology and Culture, volume 15, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISSN, pages 125-127

   Synonyms:

   hydrophilia, luneurosis, thirst

3. The biological and societal attraction to water.
   • Yet while the western world has thus unlearnt the innate aquaphilia of its ancestors, there are other cultures said to maintain this unity. Observing the natural affinity for water of the Polynesians, Herman Melville wrote: "No wonder that the South Sea Islanders are an amphibious race when they...2009, Rupert D. V. Glasgow, The Concept of Water, R. Glasgow Books, →ISBN, page 42
   • I performed content analyses, regression analyses, path analyses, and mediation analyses to study the relationships of 1) pictorial aquaphilia (intrinsic attachment to safe and clean water scenes) and waterscape imageability, 2) waterscape imageability and the coherence of city image, 3) egocentric...2015, Hope Hui Rising, “Water urbanism: Building more coherent cities”, in University of Oregon ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, University of Oregon

   Synonyms:

   hydrophilia