voyeur
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9.1
- noun
- /vwɑːˈjɜr/
- Offensive
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voyeur
- Facebook's voyeur-identifying techniques are stealthy, allowing you to be a voyeur without really feeling like a stalker.
Vaughn, he says, is never a voyeur or a pervert.
- Vaughn, he says, is never a voyeur or a pervert.
- So maybe they weren't all, you know, voyeurs, but I I do.
- And he describes the what he considers the primal circumstance of the voyeur.
- It's it's interesting for me to watch and I'm super glad that I'm the voyeur in this rather than the person that's, that's, that's getting stuck in.
Examples
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Usually in a painting like this, the spectator is a voyeur spying on the subjects.
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It's... a voyeur's paradise.
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In the privacy of his own home, he felt even more like a voyeur.
Fiction book (1990) -
My new client, Andy, is a voyeur.
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But I'm sure you'd sympathize if you knew what hell it is living the life of a voyeur.
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The chronicler establishes himself at the outset as a voyeur, a stationary eye.
Academic text (1993) -
He was caught peeking through the window, revealing him as a voyeur who derived pleasure from watching others undress.
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The film explores the dark side of being a voyeur, depicting how some individuals take pleasure in secretly observing intimate moments.
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She described her neighbor as a voyeur because he often stood at his window to watch people in the apartments across the street.
Synonyms
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9.9
A person who secretly watches people, usually through windows, for sexual reasons
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9.3
A person who secretly watches others without their knowledge
How Voyeuristic
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word voyeur comes from French voir 'to see', the same root behind the English word view. A voyeur is literally a 'watcher', which is why it now means someone who gets pleasure from secretly watching other people when they are naked or having sex.