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scoptophile

scoptophile is the alternative form of scopophile.

Meaning of scopophile

Noun

scopophile (plural scopophiles)

  1. One who is subject to scopophilia.
    • Caligula was a scopophile who was not ashamed of his irregular desire to watch others making love, while Mr. Hoover, as a voyeur, favored the keyhole and wiretap as methods of observation.

Forms of scoptophile

pluralscoptophiles

Questions about scoptophile

What is scoptophile the alternative form of?
Scoptophile is the alternative form of scopophile.

Words near scoptophile in the dictionary

  1. scops-owl
  2. scops-owls
  3. scoptic
  4. scoptical
  5. scoptically
  6. scoptophile
  7. scoptophiles
  8. scoptophilia
  9. scoptophiliac
  10. scoptophiliacs
  11. scoptophilic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scoptophile (page history and authors); scopophile (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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