Definition of "voyeurism" []

• The derivation of sexual satisfaction by watching people secretly, especially when those being watched are undressed or engaging in sexual activity. (noun)
• The derivation of satisfaction by obsessively watching or following sensational or sordid subjects. (noun)

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• "Yet this hopelessly overbroad generalization about the connection between art and life that motivates 600-page biographies of writers and artists is what is usually trotted out as justification for these exercises in voyeurism and speculation."
• "As the sites gain traffic, home-price voyeurism is reaching new heights."
• "Peeping through the lowered venetians of yesteryear (recollection as a species of voyeurism is very Ishiguro), the retrovert is privy to a series of partial visions that eventually reveal a life guided by calamitous misapprehension on his part."