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Exorcise
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Exorcise To expel or drive off an evil spirit with a special ritual; to deliver a person from being possessed by a demon.
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Drive
Basic urge, instinct, motivation; a term used to avoid confusion with the more purely biological concept of instinct.
Spirit
Among other things, wind; breath; life; the alleged vital force within living beings; an alleged soul inside or outside a living being; any alleged supernatural being; the nature of a person or of a group of persons; genius; and liveliness.
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Exorcist syndrome
A sexual condition of repeatedly assaulting, stigmatizing, or punishing people who manifest symptoms or behavior that threaten to occur in oneself.
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Exemplar
A person who becomes a pattern or model for oneself.
Exhibitionism
A paraphilia of the solicitational/allurative type in which sexuoerotic arousal and facilitation or attainment of orgasm are responsive to and contingent on evoking surprise, dismay, shock, or panic from a stranger by illicitly exhibiting an erotic part of the body, including the genitals. The reciprocal paraphilic condition is voyeurism, also known as being a "Peeping Tom". The condition of being responsive to, or dependent on the surprise, debasement, shock, or outcry of a stranger (usually female), unexpectedly exposed to the sight of the penis, in order to obtain one's erotic arousal and facilitate or achieve orgasm. The actual event may be replayed in a masturbation or coital fantasy.
Exigency theory
In psychology, the theory that, regardless of its determinants, human responsivity is contingent upon five universal exigencies of existence: Pairbondedness; Troopbondedness; Ycleptance, Abidance; and Foredoomance.
Exocrine
Pertaining to a gland with a duct through which its secretion, for example, tears or saliva, passes.
Exogenous
Produced from without.
Exorcise
Exorcist syndrome
A sexual condition of repeatedly assaulting, stigmatizing, or punishing people who manifest symptoms or behavior that threaten to occur in oneself.
Expiation
Atonement; penance.
Exteroceptive
Pertaining to a sensory organ that registers information from outside the body.
Extravasate
To seep through the skin, like drops of perspiration, or more accurately as plasma seeps through from the underlying capillaries to form droplets of lubrication on the adjoining vaginal mucosa.
Erection self-test
This is a test that determines the ability or inability to achieve an erection while sleeping.
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Drive
Basic urge, instinct, motivation; a term used to avoid confusion with the more purely biological concept of instinct.
Spirit
Among other things, wind; breath; life; the alleged vital force within living beings; an alleged soul inside or outside a living being; any alleged supernatural being; the nature of a person or of a group of persons; genius; and liveliness.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Exorcist syndrome
A sexual condition of repeatedly assaulting, stigmatizing, or punishing people who manifest symptoms or behavior that threaten to occur in oneself.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Exemplar
A person who becomes a pattern or model for oneself.
Exhibitionism
A paraphilia of the solicitational/allurative type in which sexuoerotic arousal and facilitation or attainment of orgasm are responsive to and contingent on evoking surprise, dismay, shock, or panic from a stranger by illicitly exhibiting an erotic part of the body, including the genitals. The reciprocal paraphilic condition is voyeurism, also known as being a "Peeping Tom". The condition of being responsive to, or dependent on the surprise, debasement, shock, or outcry of a stranger (usually female), unexpectedly exposed to the sight of the penis, in order to obtain one's erotic arousal and facilitate or achieve orgasm. The actual event may be replayed in a masturbation or coital fantasy.
Exigency theory
In psychology, the theory that, regardless of its determinants, human responsivity is contingent upon five universal exigencies of existence: Pairbondedness; Troopbondedness; Ycleptance, Abidance; and Foredoomance.
Exocrine
Pertaining to a gland with a duct through which its secretion, for example, tears or saliva, passes.
Exogenous
Produced from without.
Exorcise
Exorcist syndrome
A sexual condition of repeatedly assaulting, stigmatizing, or punishing people who manifest symptoms or behavior that threaten to occur in oneself.
Expiation
Atonement; penance.
Exteroceptive
Pertaining to a sensory organ that registers information from outside the body.
Extravasate
To seep through the skin, like drops of perspiration, or more accurately as plasma seeps through from the underlying capillaries to form droplets of lubrication on the adjoining vaginal mucosa.
Erection self-test
This is a test that determines the ability or inability to achieve an erection while sleeping.
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