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.
- heaven king
- heavenless
- heavenlike
- heavenliness
- heavenly
- heavenly bamboo
- heavenly body
- heavenly minded
- Heaven (or God) forfend
- heaven-pointing
- heaven queen
- heaven-send
- heaven-sent
- heaven-tree
- heavenward
- heavenwards
- heaven-wide
- heaver
- heave to
- heavier-than-air
- heavily
- heavily built
- heavily laden
- heavily loaded
- heaviness