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pyrophilia

pyrophilia noun: a paraphilia in which gratification is derived from fire and fire-starting activity.

Noun

pyrophilia (uncountable)

  1. A paraphilia in which gratification is derived from fire and fire-starting activity.
    • The woebegone children have their aspirations slowly snuffed. Grace’s artistic dreams (of animation, of course) are punctured by her isolated existence; Gilbert’s pyrophilia is smothered by religious extremism.2024 October 23, Jacob Oller, “Clay weepy Memoir Of A Snail crawls through a gauntlet of misery”, in AV Club, archived from the original on 22 Aug 2025

Origin of pyrophilia

From pyro- + -philia.

Questions about pyrophilia

What does pyrophilia mean?
Pyrophilia means a paraphilia in which gratification is derived from fire and fire-starting activity.
What part of speech is pyrophilia?
Pyrophilia is a noun.

Words near pyrophilia in the dictionary

  1. pyropheophorbides
  2. pyropheophytin
  3. pyropheophytins
  4. pyrophile
  5. pyrophiles
  6. pyrophilia
  7. pyrophilous
  8. pyrophobe
  9. pyrophobes
  10. pyrophobia
  11. pyrophobic

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