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osphresiolagnia

osphresiolagnia noun: sexual arousal through olfactory stimulation.

Noun

osphresiolagnia (uncountable)

  1. Sexual arousal through olfactory stimulation.
    • In the present case it turned out that the patient had passed through a stage which corresponded to smell-fetishism, and that after this a peculiar modification had taken place by which his osphresiolagnia (abnormal interest in odors [Ed.]) had been repressed and his pleasure in looking had been...1910, Karl Abraham, Douglas Bryan, Alix Strachey (translators), The Man who Loved Corsets, reprinted in 1959, Harold Greenwald, Great Cases in Psychoanalysis, 1987, page 45
    • In the Hindu theory of ojas and sublimation, we may have an interesting complement to the Freudian hypothesis about osphresiolagnia and its 'repression'.1950, Swami Smaranananda, Awakened India, volume 60, page 87

Synonyms of osphresiolagnia

Origin of osphresiolagnia

From Ancient Greek ὄσφρησις (ósphrēsis, “sense of smell”) (from ὄζω (ózō, “to smell”)) + λαγνεία (lagneía, “lust, coition”).

Questions about osphresiolagnia

What does osphresiolagnia mean?
Osphresiolagnia means sexual arousal through olfactory stimulation.
What part of speech is osphresiolagnia?
Osphresiolagnia is a noun.

Words near osphresiolagnia in the dictionary

  1. ospemifene
  2. OSPF
  3. osphradia
  4. osphradial
  5. osphradium
  6. osphresiolagnia
  7. osphresiologic
  8. osphresiological
  9. osphresiologist
  10. osphresiologists
  11. osphresiology

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