19 results for *癖
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eccentricity; peculiarity; strange hobby
mysophobia; obsession with cleanliness; extreme fastidiousness
sexual fetish
bad habit
addiction
onychophagia (nail biting)
transvestism
pica (medicine)
necrophilia
(sexual) fetishism
pedophilia
foot fetish
foot fetish
sadism (fetish)
exhibitionism
indecent exposure; flashing
lit. cut sleeve (idiom); fig. euphemism for homosexuality, originating from History of Western Han 漢書|汉书: emperor Han Aidi (real name Liu Xin) was in bed with his lover Dong Xian, and had to attend a court audience that morning. Not wishing to awaken Dong Xian, who was sleeping with his head resting on the emperor's long robe sleeve, Aidi used a knife to cut off the lower half of his sleeve.
moral fastidiousness; psychological obsession with maintaining moral purity in thoughts, relationships etc