Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A compulsive desire to lose one or more healthy limbs through amputation.
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- noun psychology A
compulsion to become, or appear to be, anamputee .
Etymologies
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Examples
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But just what counts as apotemnophilia is part of the problem in explaining it.
A New Way to Be Mad 2000
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Smith, in agreement with many of the wannabes I have spoken with, believes that apotemnophilia is closer to gender-identity disorder, the diagnosis given to people who wish to live as the opposite sex.
A New Way to Be Mad 2000
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But just what counts as apotemnophilia is part of the problem in explaining it.
A New Way to Be Mad 2000
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Clinicians and patients alike often suggest that apotemnophilia is like gender-identity disorder, and that amputation is like sex-reassignment surgery.
A New Way to Be Mad 2000
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If sexual desire, even paraphilic sexual desire, can be directed toward one's own identity, then perhaps it is a mistake to try to distinguish pure apotemnophilia from the kind that is contaminated with sexual desire.
A New Way to Be Mad 2000
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Smith has elsewhere speculated that apotemnophilia is not a psychiatric disorder but a neuropsychological one, with biological roots.
A New Way to Be Mad 2000
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Clinicians and patients alike often suggest that apotemnophilia is like gender-identity disorder, and that amputation is like sex-reassignment surgery.
A New Way to Be Mad 2000
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If sexual desire, even paraphilic sexual desire, can be directed toward one's own identity, then perhaps it is a mistake to try to distinguish pure apotemnophilia from the kind that is contaminated with sexual desire.
A New Way to Be Mad 2000
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Smith has elsewhere speculated that apotemnophilia is not a psychiatric disorder but a neuropsychological one, with biological roots.
A New Way to Be Mad 2000
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Smith, in agreement with many of the wannabes I have spoken with, believes that apotemnophilia is closer to gender-identity disorder, the diagnosis given to people who wish to live as the opposite sex.
A New Way to Be Mad 2000
tankexmortis commented on the word apotemnophilia
The desire to have limbs amputated.
I have this, but only for other people's limbs.
August 7, 2008
whichbe commented on the word apotemnophilia
acrotomophilia?
August 7, 2008
dyvncwby commented on the word apotemnophilia
alternapotemnophilia?
May 13, 2009
hernesheir commented on the word apotemnophilia
This word contains the alphabetical string "mnop".
December 6, 2011
vendingmachine commented on the word apotemnophilia
"Clinicians and patients alike often suggest that apotemnophilia is like gender-identity disorder, and that amputation is like sex-reassignment surgery."
June 16, 2015