-philia
Nouns with the ending -philie ( ancient Greek φιλία philía , German 'friendship' , from φίλος philos , German 'friend' ) denote a preference or inclination, especially of a person, for a certain type of object or person. The counterpart to “-philia” is “ -phobia ”, i.e. an aversion to the person in question. Both -philias and -phobias can also be names for specific clinical pictures of paraphilia or phobias .
Well-known "philias" are:
A.
- Abasiophilia
- Acidophilia
- Agalmatophilia - love of statues
- Acrotomophilia
- Algophilia
- Alkali philia
- Alkalophilicity
- Alloiophilia
- Ambiphilia
- Amelotaphilia
- Amphiphilia
- Amputophilia
- Androphilia
- Anemophilia
- Anglophilia - love of English
- Aphidophilia
- Aphilia
- Apotemnophilia
- Argyrophilia
- Arctophilia - love for bears / teddy bears
- Asphyxiophilia
- Aurophilia
- Autassinophilia
- Autogynecophilia
- Autogynophilia - An attempt to explain transvestism
- Auto epiophilia
- Azurophilia
B.
- Barophilia
- Basophilia
- Biastophilia - arousal from rape other people
- Bibliophilia - love of books
- Biophilia - love of life (opposite: necrophilia)
C.
D.
- Demophilia
- Dendrophilia - love of trees (plants)
E.
- Electrophilicity
- Electrophilicity - electron-loving (chemistry)
- Emetophilia
- Entomophilia
- Eosinophilia
- Ephebophilia
- Ergophilia
- Erinnophilia
- Excrementophilia
- Extremophilia
F.
- Formicophilia
- Forniphilia
- Francophilia - love of French
G
H
- Haemophilia - blood-loving (chemistry (medicine))
- Hematophilia
- Hebephilia
- Hibernophilia - love of Irish
- Hispanophilia - love of Spanish
- Homophilia - love for one's own gender
- Hybristophilia
- Hydrophilicity - attraction of water ( chemistry )
- Hygrophilia
- Hypereosinophilia
I.
J
K
- Clismaphilia
- Clysmaphilia
- Coprophilia - sexual affection for feces
- Corophilia
- Cynophilia
L.
- Lepidopterophilia
- Lipophilicity
- Lipophilicity - is the case with substances that can be easily dissolved in fats or oils ( lipophilic substance )
- Lithophilia
- Lyophilia
M.
- Macrophilia
- Malacophilia
- Mancophilia
- Maximaphilia
- Melittophilia
- Mesophilia
- Microphilia
- Morphophilia
- Musicophilia - love of music
- Myiophilia
- Myrmecophilia
- Myrmecophilia
- Mysophilia
N
- Necrophilia - tendency to death, also: sexual tendency towards dead sexual partners (desecration of corpses)
- Neophilia
- Neoterophilia
- Neutrophilia
- Notaphilia
- Nucleophilicity
O
- Objectophilia - love of objects
- Oknophilia
- Olfactophilia
- Ornithophilia
P
- Pedophilia - (sexual) addiction to children
- Paraphilia - sexual preferences deviating from the norm
- Parthenophilia - love for adolescent girls
- Petrophilia - prefers stone subsoil (e.g. mosses, lichens)
- Phalaenophilia
- Piezophilicity
- Plushophilia - arousal from stuffed or plush animals
- Podophilia - sexual preference for feet
- Pornophilia - love / inclination towards pornography and / or eroticism
- Psychophilia
- Psychrophilia
- Pyrophilia
R.
- Russophilia - love for everything Russian.
- Salirophilia - arousal to smear a sexual partner with mush, phlegm, or mud
- Scripophilia
- Sitophilia - sexual acts involving food
- Slavophilia
- Sphecophilia
- Sphingophilia
- Statuophilia
- Symphorophilia
T
- Technophilia
- Teleiophilia
- Thanatophilia
- Theriophilia - philosophical and ideological love for animals
- Thermophilicity
- Thrombophilia
- Timbrophilia
- Toxophilia
- Trichophilia
U
V
- Vomerophilia - desire to vomit
- Pre-arephilia - Sexual arousal at the thought of being devoured by someone or devouring someone yourself
X
- Xenophilia - love for strange things or people
- Xerophilia
Z
- Zoophilia - (sexual) love for animals
See also
- List of Greek word stems in German foreign words: keyword "phil"