-philia
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some of the content below includes sensitive content that may be triggering for some, expect mentions of necrophilia, pedophilia, sex stuff and more
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some of the content below includes sensitive content that may be triggering for some, expect mentions of necrophilia, pedophilia, sex stuff and more
you ever wonder what the 'philia' means in all of those words that end in -philia? i have. i looked it up and it turns out it means fondness. below is a list of (not all) english words ending in '-philia'. btw not all entries listed are fetishes.
note that you could technically stick the suffix philia after most words and it would mean a love for that word, for example wikipediaphilia would mean a love or affinity for wikipedia
| word | meaning |
|---|---|
| ablutophilia | sexually attracted to showers/baths |
| acrophilia | sexually attracted to heights |
| acucullophilia | sexually attracted to circumcised penises |
| adipophilia | sexually attracted to fat people |
| agalmatophilia | sexually attracted to dolls |
| androtikolobomassophilia | attracted to nibbling on the earlobes of men |
| anglophilia | a love for english culture |
| astrophilia |
a love for the stars |
| autassassinophilia | sexually attracted to the risk of being killed |
| autonepiophilia | sexually attracted to acting like an infant |
| autophilia | sexually attracted to oneself |
| autozoophilia | sexually attracted to the idea of being an animal |
| basophilia | an unusually high amount of basophils (a type of white bloodcells) |
| bibliophilia | a love for books |
| biophilia | a love for life |
| canophilia | a love for dogs |
| cartophilia | a love for maps |
| chremastitophilia | sexually attracted to being robbed |
| chronophilia | sexually attracted to someone significantly older than you |
| claustrophilia | a love or desire to be in an enclosed space |
| climacophilia | sexual attraction to falling down the stairs |
| dacryphilia | sexually attracted to crying |
| demophilia | a love for crowds |
| dendrophilia | sexually attracted to trees |
| emetophilia | sexually attracted to vomiting |
| eosinophilia | an increased amount of a type of white bloodcells in the blood |
| ergophilia | a love for working |
| erotophonophilia | sexually attracted to murdering your partner |
| erotophilia | attraction to arousal |
| felinophilia | a love for cats |
| formicophilia | sexually attracted to insects crawling on one's skin |
| gynemimetophilia | sexually attracted to transgender women |
| gynotikolobomassophilia | attracted to nibbling on the earlobes of women |
| hamartophilia | sexually attracted to doing something wrong/sinful |
| hippophilia | a love for horses |
| hybristophilia | sexually attracted to criminals |
| javaphilia | a love for coffee |
| keraunophilia | sexually attracted to thunder/lightning |
| maiesiophilia | sexually attracted to pregnant women |
| melophilia | a love for music |
| necrophilia | sexually attracted to corpses |
| nemophilia | a love for anything relating to forests |
| normophilia | literally normal sexual interests, the opposite of paraphilia |
| nyctophilia | a love for night/darkness |
| paraphilia | sexual attraction/interest towards weird objects, places, situations, fantasies, behaviours. most are uncommon |
| pedophilia | sexually attracted to children |
| peodeiktophilia | exhibitionism, exposing yourself in public |
| pictophilia | sexually attracted to porn |
| polychromatophilia | a condition where red blood cells have multiple colors when seen under a microscope |
| pyrophilia | sexually attracted to fire |
| salirophilia | sexually attracted to dirtying oneself |
| scatophilia | sexually attracted to shit |
| scopophilia | voyeurism, sexually attracted to watching people having sex |
| selenophilia | a love for the moon |
| sophophilia | a love for knowledge |
| teleiophilia | sexually attracted to adults |
| turophilia | a love for cheese |
| urophilia | sexually attracted to urine |
| vorarephilia | sexually attracted to the idea of being consumed |
| xenophilia | a love for foreign cultures |
| zoophilia | beastiality, sexual activity between a human and an animal |