Scatophiliac

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    One who exhibits scatophilia. rare

    "Dean Swift, Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's from Dublin, clergyman, was a great, shall we say, combined scatophobe and scatophiliac. He both hated and was fascinated by faeces."

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"Dean Swift, Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's from Dublin, clergyman, was a great, shall we say, combined scatophobe and scatophiliac. He both hated and was fascinated by faeces."

Etymology

From scato- + -philiac.

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