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Someone who prefers the window to the door, always.
means Someone who gets their thrill from watching — often secretly, often illicitly — rather than participating.
from Straight from French voyeur, 'one who sees,' built on the verb voir, 'to see' (from Latin videre). The French had already shaded voir into voyeur as slang for a nosy watcher before English scooped it up in the early 1900s — appropriately, as a term psychologists needed for a very specific kind of watching.
- etymology
- french for one who sees
- key distinction
- watching replaces wanting, not accompanies it
- clinical note
- becomes disorder only without consent, distress
- pop culture
- basically the premise of reality tv