"coulrophilia" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Likely coined after coulrophobia.",
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "2010, Monica Drake, Clown Girl: A Novel, page 239",
          "text": "If you're charmed by incompetence, that's just another kind of coulrophilia.",
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        {
          "ref": "2013, Nika Bella Dea, Bizarre Femdom Fetishes",
          "text": "This volume of stories covers auto flagellation (self spanking), serviphilia (sexual servitude), agalmatophilia (mannequin sex), microphilia (attraction to small people), knismolagnia (sexual tickling), coulrophilia (clowns), gerontophilia, […]",
          "type": "quotation"
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        {
          "ref": "2018, Menina Wik, Romance Gone Mortal–Taboo of Shipping Fictional Movie Monsters",
          "text": "The blog recognizes its controversiality by informing about teratophilia, the ability to see beauty in the unusual and a sexual preference for individuals having unusual appearance, and its subgenre coulrophilia, sexual attraction to clowns",
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        {
          "ref": "2020, Evan Nichols, The Ask Dr. Eldritch ETERNAL HOROSCOPE OF MYSTERY!, page 77",
          "text": "The ascending of Jocund Jupiter may give you a case of coulrophilia, but this variety will draw clowns to YOU.",
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        "A paraphilia consisting of sexual attraction to clowns, jesters and mimes."
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          "sexual",
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          "attraction",
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        [
          "clown",
          "clown"
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          "jester",
          "jester"
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          "mime",
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      "related": [
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          "word": "coulrophobia"
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  "word": "coulrophilia"
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  "etymology_text": "Likely coined after coulrophobia.",
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  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "coulrophobia"
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        {
          "ref": "2010, Monica Drake, Clown Girl: A Novel, page 239",
          "text": "If you're charmed by incompetence, that's just another kind of coulrophilia.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Nika Bella Dea, Bizarre Femdom Fetishes",
          "text": "This volume of stories covers auto flagellation (self spanking), serviphilia (sexual servitude), agalmatophilia (mannequin sex), microphilia (attraction to small people), knismolagnia (sexual tickling), coulrophilia (clowns), gerontophilia, […]",
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        {
          "ref": "2018, Menina Wik, Romance Gone Mortal–Taboo of Shipping Fictional Movie Monsters",
          "text": "The blog recognizes its controversiality by informing about teratophilia, the ability to see beauty in the unusual and a sexual preference for individuals having unusual appearance, and its subgenre coulrophilia, sexual attraction to clowns",
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          "ref": "2020, Evan Nichols, The Ask Dr. Eldritch ETERNAL HOROSCOPE OF MYSTERY!, page 77",
          "text": "The ascending of Jocund Jupiter may give you a case of coulrophilia, but this variety will draw clowns to YOU.",
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          "mime",
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