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body modification

body modification noun: deliberate physical alteration of the human body for aesthetic purposes, such as tattooing and piercing.

Noun

body modification (countable and uncountable, plural body modifications)

  1. Deliberate physical alteration of the human body for aesthetic purposes, such as tattooing and piercing.
    • Voluntary amputeeism or apotemnophilia — where the subject wishes to have a limb or appendage removed — might arguably fall within the category of radical body modification.2008, Belinda Bennett, Terry Carney, Isabel Karpin, Brave New World of Health, page 78

Forms of body modification

pluralbody modifications

Questions about body modification

What does body modification mean?
Body modification means deliberate physical alteration of the human body for aesthetic purposes, such as tattooing and piercing.
What part of speech is body modification?
Body modification is a noun.
What is the plural of body modification?
The plural of body modification is body modifications.

Words near body modification in the dictionary

  1. body matter
  2. body mechanics
  3. body men
  4. body mic
  5. body mics
  6. body modification
  7. body modifications
  8. body negative
  9. body odor
  10. body odors
  11. body odour

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