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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
voyeuristic

1919, from voyeur + -istic. Related: Voyeuristically.

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voyeuristic

a. of, relating to, or derived from voyeurism or a voyeur

WordNet
voyeuristic

adj. of or relating to voyeurs or voyeurism; "his voyeuristic pleasures" [syn: voyeuristical]

Usage examples of "voyeuristic".

Realizing that this was simply voyeuristic curiosity and had nothing whatsoever to do with her job, she shifted her gaze to two swans circling an ornamental pond.

They had been forced to mate continuously under the supervision of Failee and an occasionally voyeuristic Succiu, to begin the growth of what would become a population of well-trained male warriors.

Eddie hardly dared to hope for a woman who gave such voyeuristic pleasure as Mrs.

Had he really been planning some voyeuristic fun and games with Raoul, it would serve them both right if she ended up with Nicolas Schlemann instead.

She did not believe he would indulge in underhand, voyeuristic tricks.

Spies received such unmarked items, even if the agents themselves usually did not turn up in them as the voyeuristic objects of their own espionage.

XV users, whose voyeuristic frenzy fed the flames and led to millions of deaths.

If the violent clips invited us to question our voyeuristic appetites for eroticized violence, I could have accepted their use.

I said, and instantly it was the truth: the other Marguerite had escaped the blaze and now stood, numb with shock and wrapped in a blanket, unrecognised amidst the voyeuristic crowd always drawn to disasters.

Yai, still staring in voyeuristic fascination, heard Mank chuckle dryly.

If he's the killer, then watching young, attractive couples and military personnel who come into his store would fascinate him in a voyeuristic fashion and at the same time stir up feelings of inadequacy, frustration, rage.

If the violent clips invited us to question our voyeuristic appetites for eroticized violence, I could have accepted their use.

Written and narrated by a correspondent from UPI, it was moving without being mawkish, and the silent home movies, with their jerky movements that made all the participants look as if someone just out of camera range was barking at them to hurry up, exerted the same sort of voyeuristic fascination as FDR's leg braces.

XV's immersive visceral realism has already proven dangerous, spawning the "Global Riot," a worldwide paroxysm of violence experienced by millions of XV users, whose voyeuristic frenzy fed the flames and led to millions of deaths.

Their respective main characters barely touch on each other's lives apart from the nonrelationship of voyeur and voyeuristic object.