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/ˌɛksəbˈɪʃənɪst/ Listen

noun

exhibitionist n.

A person with a compulsive desire to expose the genitals; usually a male.

Synonyms: flasher.

Someone who deliberately behaves in such a way as to attract attention.

Synonyms: show-off.

adjective

exhibitionistic, exhibitionist adj.

Compulsively attracting attention to oneself especially by boasting or exaggerated behavior.

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Etymology of 'Exhibitionist'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Exhibitionist" Quotes from Famous Books

... nerve to parade around in trunks like that even on a public beach. Probably an exhibitionist ... But why should he wear 'em out here in the woods? No blonds or redheads ...

— The Man from Time • Frank Belknap Long

... were large, of leather, and comfortable and probably belonged to the period before the Second War. Peter Voss, evidently, was little short of an exhibitionist. ...

— Status Quo • Dallas McCord Reynolds

... large, of leather, and comfortable and probably belonged to the period before the Second War. Peter Voss, evidently, was little short of an exhibitionist. ...

— Status Quo • Dallas McCord Reynolds

... Man" was an example of this anomaly. The first of this class of exhibitionists was seen in Buda-Pesth some years since and possessed great elasticity in the skin of his whole body; even his nose could be stretched. Figure 70 represents a photograph of an exhibitionist named Felix Wehrle, who besides having the power to stretch his skin could readily bend his fingers backward and forward. The photograph was taken ...

— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould