symphorophilia
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
29
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A paraphilia involving sexual arousal from staging and watching disasters, such as traffic collisions.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The phylism to which biastophilia and symphorophilia become attached is probably the ungovernable rage of an infantile temper tantrum. The victims of the catastrophe are, like hostages, stand-ins for the original enemy."
- "One of the strangest sexual problems occurs with symphorophilia."
- "Autoassassinophilia (arousal from putting oneself in a position to be killed) and symphorophilia (arousal by accidents or catastrophes) are paraphilias of the sacrificial type."
- ""What's he need?" Alan asks. "Car crashes?" "It's called symphorophilia, dear," Callie says. "Someone who is sexually aroused by accidents or catastrophes.""