Meaning

2 senses
  1. Attracted to inanimate objects, especially sexually or romantically, but can be other types such as platonic or familial.

  2. Between a human and an object, or being directed or oriented towards objects.

Origin

Learned borrowing from Latin obiectum. Coined by Eija-Ritta Eklof Berliner-Mauer in the ea

Learned borrowing from Latin obiectum. Coined by Eija-Ritta Eklof Berliner-Mauer in the early 1970s as part of the terms objectum-sexual and objectum-sexuality. Doublet of object and objet.

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Forms

more objectum, most objectum
Comparativemore objectum Lesson
Superlativemost objectum Lesson

regular

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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