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Voyeurism vs Exhibition - What's the difference?

voyeurism | exhibition |

As nouns the difference between voyeurism and exhibition

is that voyeurism is the derivation of sexual satisfaction by watching people secretly, especially when those being watched are undressed or engaging in sexual activity while exhibition is an instance of exhibiting, or something exhibited.

voyeurism

English

Noun

(wikipedia voyeurism) (en-noun)
  • The derivation of sexual satisfaction by watching people secretly, especially when those being watched are undressed or engaging in sexual activity.
  • (by extension) The derivation of satisfaction by obsessively watching or following sensational or sordid subjects.
  • exhibition

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An instance of exhibiting, or something exhibited.
  • A large scale public showing of objects or products.
  • There was an art exhibition on in the town hall.
    a boat exhibition
  • (UK) A financial award or prize given to a student (who becomes an exhibitioner) by a school or university, usually on the basis of academic merit.
  • * 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia'', Faber & Faber 1992 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 352:
  • He was a scholarship boy who had won an Exhibition to Oxford, and then, like so many others, had found himself thrown upon the slave market of pedagogy.

    Derived terms

    * exhibitionism * make an exhibition of oneself