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exhibitionism

n.

1. the disposition or tendency to draw attention to oneself, particularly through conspicuous behavior. See also attention-getting.

2. a paraphilia in which the genitals are exposed to an unsuspecting stranger as a means of achieving sexual excitement, but without any attempt at further sexual activity with the stranger. —exhibitionist n.

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July 27th 2024

distributional redundancy

distributional redundancy

in psychological aesthetics, the development of uncertainty in an artistic pattern by making some elements occur more frequently than others. Distributional redundancy is one of two kinds of internal restraint in pattern variation, the other being correlational redundancy, in which certain combinations of elements are made to occur more frequently than others.