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coprographia

coprographia noun: the making of vulgar writings or drawings, especially when done involuntarily.

Noun

coprographia (uncountable)

  1. The making of vulgar writings or drawings, especially when done involuntarily.
    • 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 2
    • Trimble (199 ) has noted tatooing in some individuals with Tourette's disorder and also coprographia.1995, James C. Harris, Developmental Neuropsychiatry, page 477

Origin of coprographia

From copro- (“feces”) + -graphia.

Words formed from coprographia

Questions about coprographia

What does coprographia mean?
Coprographia means the making of vulgar writings or drawings, especially when done involuntarily.
What part of speech is coprographia?
Coprographia is a noun.

Words near coprographia in the dictionary

  1. coprofauna
  2. coprofaunas
  3. coprogen
  4. coprogenous
  5. coprogens
  6. coprographia
  7. coprographic
  8. coprolagnia
  9. coprolagnic
  10. coprolalia
  11. coprolaliac

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