exhibitionism
Example Sentences
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Cage, who wrote music to suppress his ego, had a problem with Ono’s exhibitionism.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
She allows the camera into the sanctums of her tanning booth and facial treatment sessions, but there’s an exhibitionism in these moments instead of conveying honesty and openness.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2024
Most of the mental health stuff that you see is exhibitionism.
From Slate ● Feb. 28, 2023
Or, as the NFL described it several decades ago, an “unrestrained dance … deemed to be contrived exhibitionism that has no place in the sport.”
From Washington Post ● Feb. 4, 2022
This is a kind of psychic exhibitionism, the gratification it causes lying exactly, as in physical exhibitionism, in the emotional confusion which it is felt to arouse.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy by Havelock Ellis