parafilia
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9 characters
Language
Portuguese
word origin
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parafilia is aPortuguesenoun. It means: desvio de comportamento sexual no qual, em geral, a fonte predominante de prazer não se encontra no coito, mas em alguma outra atividade, muitas vezes de modo patológico e considerado transtorno ps... Pronounced /pa.ɾa.fiˈli.ɐ/.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | parafilia |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pa.ɾa.fiˈli.ɐ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Portuguese entry for parafilia is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /pa.ɾa.fiˈli.ɐ/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for parafilia in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Portuguese patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is parafilia, spelled P-A-R-A-F-I-L-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1desvio de comportamento sexual no qual, em geral, a fonte predominante de prazer não se encontra no coito, mas em alguma outra atividade, muitas vezes de modo patológico e considerado transtorno psiquiátrico ou desvio psicológico
- 2conduta sexual atípica que, em alguns casos, constitui objeto de estudo da psicopatologia forense por suas implicações tanto no direito civil (como no direito de família, por exemplo), quanto no direito penal (como nos crimes de pedofilia, ultraje público ao pudor e outros)
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