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exhibitionist
[ek-suh-bish-uh-nist]
noun
a person who behaves in ways intended to attract attention or display their powers, personality, etc.
Psychiatry.a person with the compulsions of exhibitionism.
Other Word Forms
- exhibitionistic adjective
- exhibitionistically adverb
- nonexhibitionistic adjective
- semiexhibitionist noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of exhibitionist1
Example Sentences
The role suited Reid Banks' exhibitionist nature - but being "booted off" to the job of backroom scriptwriter did not.
I mean, there are lots of exhibitionists for whom the cameras are a feature, not a bug.
But back then, only science fiction writers could have foretold the tech revolution and the galaxies of social media platforms that formed a new universe of exhibitionist buffoons.
I probably have always been an exhibitionist, but I've done things that I never thought I could do, and it is because of cancer.
Only an exhibitionist would want to live in constant public view, although there do seem to be a lot of those around.
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When To Use
In psychiatry, an exhibitionist is someone who has a compulsion to exhibit, or display, their genitals in public. Exhibitionist can also be used in nonclinical, everyday speech to refer to a show-off or a person who overshares.A popular slang term for exhibitionist is flasher, but keep in mind that a person diagnosed as an exhibitionist has a clinical disorder.Example: She called him an exhibitionist for his tendency to share too much personal information at parties.
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