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scatologia

scatologia

n. preoccupation with obscenities, lewdness, and filth, mainly of an excremental nature. The term is derived from the Greek word for dung. In psychoanalytic theory, scatologia is usually associated with anal eroticism. Also called scatology. —scatological adj.

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