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scopophilic

scopophilic

9.9
Enjoying looking at pictures or film scenes
  • adjective
  • /ˌskoʊpəˈfɪlɪk/
  • Literature
translation icon : escopofílico
  • Film critics often discuss scopophilic elements in movies, emphasizing the pleasure of visual storytelling.

Examples

  • The artist's work embodies a scopophilic fascination with the beauty of urban landscapes.

  • In his lecture, he explored how scopophilic tendencies influence our appreciation of art.

  • They are the necessary holes in the architectural representation's scopophilic objective.

    Fiction book (1992)

Antonyms

indifference
71 4.6

Lack of interest or concern about something

disinterest
5 5.8

Not feeling interested in something, like a talk or task

How Interested

enthralled
3 6.9
absorbed
3.6
scopophilic
  • Literature
9.9
interested
∞ 1.0
uninterested
20 3.5

Surface Forms

scopophilic positive

Morphology

scopophilic = scopophilia (opaque) = scop + phil + ic

The components are specialized combining forms used in academic discourse; the sense relating to aesthetic pleasure from looking is technical and not directly inferable by average learners.

Etymology

Scopophilic comes from the Greek part skopein 'to look' and -philic 'loving', like the 'scope' in telescope and the 'phil' in philosophy. So, scopophilic means 'loving to look', which is why it is used for enjoying visual scenes or images in art and film.