scatophiliac

English

Etymology

From scato- +‎ -philiac.

Noun

scatophiliac (plural scatophiliacs)

  1. (rare) One who exhibits scatophilia.
    Synonym: scatophile
    • 1973, Anthony Burgess, Obscenity and the Arts:
      Dean Swift, Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's from Dublin, clergyman, was a great, shall we say, combined scatophobe and scatophiliac. He both hated and was fascinated by faeces.
    • 1985, Michael Tobias, After Eden: History, Ecology, and Conscience, page 236:
      Joseph Mallard Turner had a profound, if scatophiliac, attraction to fire at sea.
    • 2008, Stephen T. Holmes, Sex Crimes: Patterns and Behavior‎, page 82:
      Like the exhibitionist, the scatophiliac wants his victim, the person on the other end of the phone line, to be shocked, disgusted, or horrified by his demeanor or words.
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