noun Psychiatry.
- the obtaining of sexual pleasure by looking at nude bodies, erotic photographs, etc.
n.“voyeurism,” 1924 (in a translation of Freud), from Greek -skopia “observation” (see scope (n.1)) + -philia. In early use often scoptophilia through a mistake by Freud’s translators. Modern form by 1937. Related: Scopophiliac. n.
- voyeurism