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scopophobic

scopophobic adjective: of or relating to scopophobia.

Adjective

scopophobic

  1. Of or relating to scopophobia.
    • Preoccupation with the shameful change in her body is emphasized in the numerous scopophilic and scopophobic references in these pictures.1955 November–December, Bernard C. Meyer, Fred Brown, Abraham Levine, “Observations on the House-Tree-Person Drawing Test Before and After Surgery”, in Psychosomatic Medicine: Journal of the American...
    • Scopophilic–exhibitionistic distortions, scopophobic elements, and inhibitions in the countertransference can impair the analyst’s skill and contribute to those interminable analyses that “move” without movement.1974, David W. Allen, “Introduction”, in The Fear of Looking or Scopophilic–Exhibitionistic Conflicts, Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia, →ISBN, page 6

Examples of scopophobic in a sentence

  • The complicated scopophilic-scopophobic dialectic of exhibitionism and paranoia that is evident in such figures as Rousseau shows the intimate linkages between vision and psychological phenomena.1986, Martin Jay, “In the Empire of the Gaze: Foucault and the Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-century French Thought”, in David Couzens...
  • Why have scopophobic and gaze theories been so popular and totalizing in critical theory?1995, John Thornton Caldwell, “Postscript: Intellectual Culture, Image, and Iconoclasm”, in Televisuality: Style, Crisis, and Authority in...

Origin of scopophobic

From Ancient Greek σκοπέω (skopéō, “examine, inspect, look to or into, consider”) + -phobic.

Questions about scopophobic

What does scopophobic mean?
Scopophobic means of or relating to scopophobia.
How do you use scopophobic in a sentence?
The complicated scopophilic-scopophobic dialectic of exhibitionism and paranoia that is evident in such figures as Rousseau shows the intimate linkages between vision and psychological phenomena.
What part of speech is scopophobic?
Scopophobic is an adjective.

Words near scopophobic in the dictionary

  1. scopophiliac
  2. scopophiliacs
  3. scopophilic
  4. scopophilism
  5. scopophobia
  6. scopophobic
  7. scopperil
  8. scopperils
  9. scops
  10. scops owl
  11. scops owls

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