Pygmalionism
/pɪɡˈmeɪlɪənɪz(ə)m/Chiefly Psychology
noun
The condition of loving a statue, image, or inanimate object; sexual attraction towards such an object.
Origin
Early 20th century; earliest use found in Havelock Ellis (1859–1939), writer and sexologist. From Pygmalion, the name of a character in Greek mythology + -ism, apparently after German Pygmalionismus.
- heteromorphism
- heteromorphy
- heteronomous
- heteronomy
- heteronormative
- heteronormativity
- heteronym
- heteronymic
- heteronymous
- heterophyte
- heterophytic
- heteroplastic
- heteroplasty
- heteropolar
- Heteroptera
- heteropteran
- heteropterous
- heterosexism
- heterosexist
- heterosexual
- heterosexuality
- heterosexually
- heterosis
- heterosporous
- heterospory