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Definition of: autoerotism
(ô′tō·er′ə·tiz′əm) noun
1. Psychoanal. Sexual impulses taking one's own body as their object, without association with or stimulus from another person.
2. Masturbation. Also au·to·e·rot·i·cism (ô′tō·i·rot′ə·siz′əm). [ < AUTO-1 + Gk. erĭs, erotos love]
—au·to·e·rot·ic (ô′tō·i·rot′ik) adjective
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