autonepiophilia
/ˌɔːtəʊˌniːpiəʊˈfɪliə/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
7
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Paraphilic infantilism with oneself in the role of the infant or toddler, wearing diapers, engaging in child-like activities and engaging with childish paraphernalia; a kink in which one imagines themselves as a baby or toddler, part of ABDL.
Formal; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "With one kind of chronophilia called autonepiophilia, sexual arousal and pleasure are dependent on, and responsive to, pretending to be a baby in diapers and having one's sexual partner play along."
- "Infantilism, also known as autonepiophilia (Money, 1986) is a paraphilia characteristic of a masquerade in which an individual is symbolically transformed back to infancy."
- "Autonepiophilia is when the paraphilic individual behaves like a child, usually in wearing diapers as a necessary part of sexual activity."
Etymology
From auto- + nepiophilia. Coined by New Zealand-American psychologist and sexologist John Money in 1986.