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A philia is the love or obsession with a particular thing or subject. The suffix -philia is used to specify the love or obsession with something more specific. It is antonymic to -phobia.
Philia as a greek word for love refers to brotherly love, including friendship and affection. This contrasts to the Greek terms Eros, or sexual/ romantic love, and agape, or detached, spiritual love. However, it should be noted that English usage differs in some cases from the eytmological use, and several of these words refer in English not to brotherly love but to sexual attraction.
The suffix -phile (or, in a few cases, -philiac) applies to someone who has one of these philia. It is the antonym of -phobic.
What follows is a list of words that have the suffix -philia.
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- acrotomophilia - Love of amputees
- ailurophilia - Love of cats
- ammophilia - Love of sand and sandy places
- androphiliaIn the context of male homosexuality, androphilia is the mutual attraction of adult men. It is to be distinguished from ephebophilia or the attraction of an adult man to an adolescent male. While there is no sharp demarcation point between the two desires - Love of men
- Anglophilia - Love of English and/or England (and often British and/or Britain)
- anthophilia - Attraction to flowers
- apodysophilia - Desire to undress, see also nudismNudism or naturism is the practice of going nude or unclothed in social and usually mixed gender groups, specifically in cultures where this is not the norm. It sometimes occurs furtively in secluded places in countries where appearing naked in public is
- apotemnophiliaApotemnophilia (from Greek #x3b1;ποτέμνειν "to cut off") or amputation fetish is the overwhelming desire to amputate a healthy limb. Some authorities hold that the condition is sexual in origin. See als - Desire to amputate a healthy limb
- arctophilia - Love of Teddy Bears
- astrophilia - Love of astronomy and/or outer space in general
- asiaphilia - Love of Asian culture and/or women/men
- audiophiliaAn audiophile most generally, is a lover of sound or music, but the word is more commonly used about someone who cares about hi-fi playback of sound recordings, rather than live performances. In some cases, an audiophile desires an improvement in the soun - Love of recorded sound
- Australophilia - Love of Australians and/or Australia (lit. love of the south)
- autogynephiliaTopics relating to transitioning The behavioral model of autogynephilia was first proposed in 1989 by Ray Blanchard, as an attempt to explain transsexual women who are sexually attracted to women. The theory claims that gender dysphoric males who are not - Love of oneself as a woman
- autovoxiphillia - Love of one's own voice
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