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I prefer love scenes to be shot up close with a lot of focus on eyes and mouths. Otherwise it can feel uncomfortable and voyeuristic.
Andrew Davies

Meaning of "voyeuristic" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF VOYEURISTIC

voyeuristic  [ˌvwaɪəˈrɪstɪk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF VOYEURISTIC

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Voyeuristic is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES VOYEURISTIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Voyeurism

Voyeurism is the sexual interest in or practice of spying on people engaged in intimate behaviors, such as undressing, sexual activity, or other actions usually considered to be of a private nature. The principal characteristic of voyeurism is that the voyeur does not normally interact directly with the subject of his/her interest, who is often unaware of being observed. The essence of voyeurism is the observing but may also involve the making of a secret photograph or video of the subject during an intimate activity. When the interest in a particular subject is obsessive, the behavior may be described as stalking. The term comes from the French voyeur, "one who looks". A male voyeur is commonly labeled "Peeping Tom", a term which originates from the Lady Godiva legend. However, that term is usually applied to a male who observes somebody secretly and, generally, not in a public place.

Definition of voyeuristic in the English dictionary

The definition of voyeuristic in the dictionary is voyeuristic behaviour involves getting sexual pleasure from secretly watching other people having sex or taking their clothes off. Other definition of voyeuristic is if you describe someone's behaviour as voyeuristic, you disapprove of them because you think they enjoy watching other people's suffering or problems.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH VOYEURISTIC


amoristic
ˌæməˈrɪstɪk
aphoristic
ˌæfəˈrɪstɪk
behavioristic
bɪˌheɪvjəˈrɪstɪk
characteristic
ˌkærɪktəˈrɪstɪk
coloristic
ˌkʌləˈrɪstɪk
eristic
ɛˈrɪstɪk
Eucharistic
ˌjuːkəˈrɪstɪk
euhemeristic
juːˌhiːməˈrɪstɪk
floristic
flɒˈrɪstɪk
formularistic
ˌfɔːmjʊləˈrɪstɪk
futuristic
ˌfjuːtʃəˈrɪstɪk
heuristic
hjʊəˈrɪstɪk
hypocoristic
ˌhaɪpəkɔːˈrɪstɪk
juristic
dʒʊˈrɪstɪk
meristic
məˈrɪstɪk
militaristic
ˌmɪlɪtəˈrɪstɪk
myristic
mɪˈrɪstɪk
poristic
pɒˈrɪstɪk
puristic
pjʊəˈrɪstɪk
uncharacteristic
ˌʌnkærɪktəˈrɪstɪk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE VOYEURISTIC

vows
vox
vox angelica
vox humana
vox pop
vox populi
voxel
voyage
voyage charter
voyageable
Voyager
Voyager 1
Voyager 2
voyageur
voyaging
voyeur
voyeurism
voyeuristically
Voysey
vozhd

WORDS THAT END LIKE VOYEURISTIC

anachronistic
artistic
autistic
ballistic
deterministic
domestic
holistic
journalistic
linguistic
logistic
mechanistic
minimalistic
optimistic
probabilistic
realistic
sadistic
simplistic
statistic
stylistic
synergistic
unrealistic

Synonyms and antonyms of voyeuristic in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «voyeuristic» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF VOYEURISTIC

Find out the translation of voyeuristic to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of voyeuristic from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «voyeuristic» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

偷窥
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

voyeurista
570 millions of speakers

English

voyeuristic
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

voyeuristic
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

متلصصة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

подглядывания
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

voyeurista
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

হয়েছে ঈক্ষণকামী
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

voyeur
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Voyeuristic
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

voyeuristischen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

のぞき
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

관음증
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Voyeuristic
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

mãn nhãn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வெறியுற்ற
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

स्वाधीन करणारा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

röntgenci
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

voyeuristico
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

podglądania
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

підглядання
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

voyeurist
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ηδονοβλεπτική
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

voyeuristiese
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

voyeuristic
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

voyeuristic
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of voyeuristic

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «VOYEURISTIC»

The term «voyeuristic» is regularly used and occupies the 96.335 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «VOYEURISTIC» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about voyeuristic

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6 QUOTES WITH «VOYEURISTIC»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word voyeuristic.
1
Courtney Barnett
I like reading biographies because most of them are slightly similar, and it's voyeuristic, looking into someone's life.
2
Brian Cox
There are characters that have made me uncomfortable. I did a film called 'Rob Roy,' and I played Killearn, who was this sort of greasy fallen-angel character who was voyeuristic and sleazy and really unpleasant. It was a great role, but I didn't especially enjoy living with this awful man for the length of time it took to make the movie.
3
Andrew Davies
I prefer love scenes to be shot up close with a lot of focus on eyes and mouths. Otherwise it can feel uncomfortable and voyeuristic.
4
David Suchet
I think it's very dangerous, the idea of celebrity - you have to be constantly controversial to maintain the status of celebrity. Reality TV is the death of entertainment - it's just mindless TV but popular because of its voyeuristic nature, and people are very voyeuristic.
5
Alison Tyler
Editing is such a voyeuristic treat for me. I land on a theme and ask authors to pen works that fit the topic.
6
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Not enough books focus on how a culture responds to radically new ideas or discovery. Especially in the biography genre, they tend to focus on all the sordid details in the life of the person who made the discovery. I find this path to be voyeuristic but not enlightening.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VOYEURISTIC»

Discover the use of voyeuristic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to voyeuristic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Projecting Illusion: Film Spectatorship and the Impression ...
may be countered, surely a voyeuristic response to the image can be produced through identification with a character in a film if that character himself is a voyeur ? Indeed, voyeurism in the cinema is most often discussed in relationship to films  ...
Richard Allen, 1997
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The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, ...
Adult males with voyeuristic disorder often first become aware of their sexual interest in secretly watching unsuspecting persons during adolescence. However , the minimum age for a diagnosis of voyeuristic disorder is 18 years because there ...
American Psychiatric Association
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Art and Pornography: Philosophical Essays
The thrill involved in breaking taboos and indulging in something we know to be inappropriate is central to the moral tension voyeuristic art relies on. We experience that frisson in virtue of being a spectator of a titillating scene, but also  ...
Hans Maes, Jerrold Levinson, 2012
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Monomania: The Flight from Everyday Life in Literature and Art
Voyeuristic. Monomania. Sophie Calle's Rituals In order to convert the boredom of the everyday into art . . . Sophie Calle has spent the last twenty years metamorphosing her life into strange rituals .... Transfiguring the passing of time .
Marina Van Zuylen, 2005
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Encyclopedia of Identity
This painting represents the third type of voyeuristic depiction; in it, van Loo adapts a well- known painted subject that he reduces to just the central figure, the nude wife of Candaules, king of Lydia. Jacob Jordaens's King Candaules of Lydia ...
Ronald L. Jackson II, Michael A. Hogg, 2010
6
Modern Austrian Literature Through the Lens of Adaptation
Aligning herself with Ascher, the reader becomes an active participant in this voyeuristic act and, in turn, asserts her superiority over the unknowing ethnographic subjects. This sense of authority is arguably increased by the absence of explicit ...
Catriona Firth, 2012
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The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Film
This seems a more promising foundation on which to build the argument about the voyeuristic basis of the apparatus, because it depends, not upon a theory of illusion in which the cinema tricks us into seeing something as present to us which ...
Paisley Livingston, Carl Plantinga, 2008
8
National Identities and Post-Americanist Narratives
Hitchcock pathologizes spectatorial pleasure as a form of fetishistic scopophilia in Rear Window because he wants to acknowledge the corruption of voyeuristic pleasure by the rise of McCarthyism. ln suggesting that cinematic viewing merely  ...
Donald E. Pease, 1994
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The Imprint of Gender: Authorship and Publication in the ...
CHAPTER. THREE. PREFATORIAL. DISCLOSURES: "Violent. Enlargement". and. the. Voyeuristic. Text. The experience of transgression ... is indissociable from the consciousness of the limit or prohibition it violates. . . . The characteristic  ...
Wendy Wall, 1993
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IDisorder: Understanding Our Obsession with Technology and ...
results also showed that feeling anonymous online (e.g., perceived anonymity) contributes to voyeuristic surveillance of blogs.“ So, the desire to spy or eavesdrop on others in an anonymous way is not just related to sexual content but can ...
Larry D. Rosen, L. Mark Carrier, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «VOYEURISTIC»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term voyeuristic is used in the context of the following news items.
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Voyeuristic Video Investigation
The search warrant describes Roy as a “prolific collector and producer of voyeuristic matter”. Investigators believe Roy set up his cameras and recorded more ... «FOX 11 Los Angeles, Jul 15»
2
Roy man hid in store, snapped voyeuristic photos, police say
The man is charged with voyeurism by electronic equipment, a class A misdemeanor. He has since written a letter of apology to the woman, according to police. «Deseret News, Jul 15»
3
Voyeuristic photo series lets you peer into the lives — and windows …
The voyeuristic quality of each photo, and the fact that each is staged and lit, lends itself to a cinematic feel. As the viewer, you are encouraged to stare at a ... «Washington Post, Jun 15»
4
BBC show Britain's Hardest Grafter dubbed 'voyeuristic poverty porn'
They said: “This is the next rung down the ladder in the disturbing trend of voyeuristic poverty porn made popular in programmes like Benefits Street. «Irish Examiner, May 15»
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'Out My Window' Offers A Voyeuristic Peek Into Strangers' Lives
Gail Albert Halaban was first inspired to train her artistic gaze through others' windows during a period of personal tragedy. While her five-year-old son was in ... «Huffington Post, May 15»
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Elizabeth Olsen Admits That She Actually Enjoys Shooting Nude …
Though she doesn't want to be a cautionary tale for other young actresses, she likes nude scenes. "You want that voyeuristic quality, but I never feel I have to be ... «E! Online, Apr 15»
7
Three years for voyeuristic priest
A "voyeuristic" Catholic priest has been jailed for three years for sexually abusing a vulnerable teenage boy at a children's home. «Belfast Telegraph, Apr 15»
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See Led Zeppelin's Voyeuristic, Interactive 'Trampled Under Foot …
Led Zeppelin's interactive new video for "Brandy & Coke" – the rough mix of "Trampled Under Foot" that appeared on last month's deluxe Physical Graffiti ... «RollingStone.com, Mar 15»
9
Anderson Township man pleads guilty after taking voyeuristic photos
ANDERSON TOWNSHIP, Ohio —An Anderson Township man pleaded guilty to voyeurism and public indecency after he was discovered taking naked photos of ... «WLWT Cincinnati, Feb 15»
10
Former UW student gets two years of probation for taking voyeuristic
Peter Jung, 22, of Mississauga, pleaded guilty to a voyeurism charge. Justice David Carr said Jung's behaviour was "highly and totally inappropriate.". «Waterloo Record, Feb 15»

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