alloeroticismn.
/ˌaləʊᵻˈrɒtᵻsɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˌæloʊəˈrɑdəˌsɪz(ə)m/ Psychology and Psychoanalysis.
The condition or fact of obtaining sexual or erotic satisfaction from external stimuli, esp. considered as a stage of psychosexual development; the satisfaction of erotic desires through interaction with others. Opposed to autoeroticism n.
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1927 Australasian Jrnl. Psychol. & Philos. 5 258 The stage of allo-eroticism with its various degrees of extraversion.
1934 H. C. Warren Dict. Psychol. 10/1 Allo-eroticism.
1963 J. Guicharnaud tr. J. Delay Youth of A. Gide xii. 117 André Gide's childhood gives no evidence of alloeroticism, but it does show a very ambiguous autoeroticism.
2003 B. Fink in M. A. Rothenberg et al. Perversion & Social Relation 63 The connection to other people..is so fundamental that there seems to be no eroticism, as such, without it. All eroticism is alloeroticism.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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