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metophilia
Definition
A paraphilia invented by Boris Karloff, posing as a psychiatrist, to fool Danny Kaye in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947): ' I had a patient in here last week who was suffering from the same sort of romantic delusion. (...) No matter how a woman was dressed he always fancied he saw her in a bathing suit. Merophilia.'
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