autoerotism
/ˌɔːtə(ʊ)ˈɛrətɪz(ə)m/originally Psychology and Psychoanalysis
noun
Behaviour related to psychosexual development in which an emotional or erotic desire is satisfied by oneself.
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in Havelock Ellis (1859–1939), writer and sexologist. From auto- + erotism. Compare German Autoerotismus.
- exterior angle
- exteriorise
- exteriority
- exteriorization
- exteriorize
- exteriorly
- exterminate
- extermination
- exterminator
- exterminatory
- extern
- external
- external auditory meatus
- external combustion
- external ear
- external examiner
- externalise
- externalism
- externalist
- externality
- externalization
- externalize
- externally
- externment
- externship