Coprographia

Quick meaning: Coprographia is a noun meaning (psychiatry) The making of vulgar writings or drawings, especially when done involuntarily.

Meaning

(psychiatry) The making of vulgar writings or drawings, especially when done involuntarily.

Example Sentences

Some speculate that Mozart the musician had coprographia.

Trimble (199 ) has noted tatooing in some individuals with Tourette's disorder and also coprographia.

Symptoms such as mental coprolalia (the thinking of obscenities), coprographia (the writing of obscenities) and mental palilalia are usually unrecognized unless specifically asked about.

Examination of the 374 letters written by Wolfgang Mozart shows scatological writing (coprographia) in 39, or 10.5%, which mention shit (29 times), arse and arse hole (27), muck (17), fart (6), piddling or pissing (6), but without the words being placed illogically, if not inappropriately.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include coprophenomenon, coprolalomania, copraphilia, psychograph, rhyparography, pyrography.

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