Definition of voyeur in English:

voyeur

noun vwʌɪˈjəːvɔɪˈjəː

1A person who gains sexual pleasure from watching others when they are naked or engaged in sexual activity.
窥淫癖者
he stood transfixed, a voyeur feasting on the swell of her buttocks
Example sentencesExamples
- After the car keys parties of the 1970s, hedonists are nowadays more likely to opt for pursuits such as ‘dogging’ - having sex in car parks while voyeurs watch.
- Like peep-show voyeurs, they want to read erotic materials and repudiate any interest in them at the same time.
- Curiosity is their driving instinct, so these flitting voyeurs get their highs from watching rather than doing.
- Such explicitness forces us into the role of voyeurs, and makes engagement with the paintings so fraught we loose sight of their symbolic dimension.
- The king is the cause of his own jealousy because he is a voyeur, at once aroused and made jealous by watching the object of his desire perform an act of seduction at his bidding.
- Plus, you can sit in the back and kiss your boyfriend all you want without having to worry about Peeping Toms or voyeurs.
- Pornographers and voyeurs communicate with each other and learn how to articulate fluctuating sexual scenarios and pornographic roles.
- Jefferson is an obsessive voyeur, through a carefully concealed camera he watches the women at home, cooking, bathing, entertaining guests and making love.
- Did they feel he was a voyeur, peeking in windows, watching their naked bodies, making them feel ashamed?
- Is photography what happens when a voyeur meets a narcissist?
- From being the object of voyeurism Magda becomes the voyeur, and from being the loved one turns into the lover.
- Now, if you've suddenly turned into a voyeur, well, your sex life is your own business, not mine, and I don't have any right to demand an explanation of what turns you on these days.
- The emphasis on celluloid as the medium for voyeurs, pornographers and for exploitation rings true with other more high minded explorations of the moving image.
- And for the voyeurs, Tessa's steamy shower scene is shocking for TV fare.
- The advance of new technology, and in particular the use of cellphone cameras, has enhanced the ability of voyeurs to engage in such recordings.
- During this sequence, Glen, and Wood's alter ego, Lugosi, become male voyeurs who are both disgusted, yet strangely excited, by the activities of the women.
- ‘Dave has told me he often feels like a voyeur watching the intimate dance unfold or a puppet master manipulating us with his guitar strings,’ says Webb.
- Brendan Fletcher plays a teen voyeur who likes to spy on gay men having sex in a park.
- In slightly different circumstances, the scene would be enough to sweep even the most demanding of voyeurs from impotence to premature ejaculation in a few hazy moments.
- Porn voyeurs are in for a treat next month, with the promise of a record-breaking online orgy.
1. 1.1 A person who enjoys seeing the pain or distress of others.
  以目击他人痛苦与不幸为乐者
  a voyeur of death
  murder trials make us voyeurs
  Example sentencesExamples
  I feel like a reluctant voyeur, watching a flower die in heart wrenching, time lapse photography.
  On first viewing I remember feeling like a voyeur who should not be watching the anguish of a family under such strain and shock, all the while trying to maintain its coherence and dignity.
  We watch like greedy voyeurs as he walks away from the world and its troubles.
  Though I am not a voyeur, I do take some enjoyment from watching these idling drivers punch their car radios, and, if their windows are down, listening to the cacophony of sounds that emit from their sound systems.
  Obviously many men did not survive the crashes I witnessed, and I felt a bit like a voyeur watching it on screen.
  Through these responses, viewers are checking their own desire to participate as voyeurs and to be entertained by the house guests' interpersonal dramas.
  But the truth can be told with powerful understatement as well, in words and visual images that create empathy without turning the American people into paranoid voyeurs.
  The fact that the economy is stuck in neutral and that good jobs are hard to find makes the overcompensated especially tempting targets for TV voyeurs.
  This is not a film where we find ourselves empathizing with the heroine; instead, we are dispassionate voyeurs, observing her actions and unraveling clues about who she was, is, and will be.
  The Guardian accused its competitors of pandering to a voyeur instinct by prying into Blunkett's life.
  He believes Americans watch not as voyeurs but as crusaders: We want to see justice done and evildoers vanquished.
  We have become voyeurs getting our kicks out of other people's fun and misfortunes.
  Anna Nolan, 29, is one of ten strangers who has been locked in a house complete with 25 cameras and dozens of microphones so that Net voyeurs can satisfy their craving for warts-and-all people gazing.
  The domestication of the nation's tastes has become so banal that we are content to watch, as voyeurs, a middle-aged woman on Changing Rooms cry for joy at her new dining room.
  This device also draws in listeners in that it asks us to be more than voyeurs; it asks us to be activists who save others from lynching.
  Taken out of the theatre, the 13 spectators become voyeurs of a slightly dated reality show.

Derivatives

voyeuristically

adverbvwʌɪjəˈrɪstɪk(ə)liˌvwɑjəˈrɪstɪk(ə)li

1In a way that relates to sexual pleasure derived from watching others when they are naked or engaged in sexual activity.
窥淫癖者
he voyeuristically filmed their liaisons using a night-time camera
1. 1.1 In a way that relates to enjoyment derived from seeing the pain or distress of others.
  以目击他人痛苦与不幸为乐者
Example sentencesExamples
- The audience is taken in by this and voyeuristically watches someone else's fantasy world spill out over the stage.
- Generally, we don't get inside the character's heads - instead we view everything from outside, voyeuristically.
- Some critics have seen in these sensual and voyeuristically conceived nudes the only full expression of Ingres's artistic imagination.
- we hope to voyeuristically glimpse fright from a distance

Origin

Early 20th century: from French, from voir 'see'.

Rhymes

à deux, agent provocateur, astir, auteur, aver, bestir, blur, bon viveur, burr, Chandigarh, coiffeur, concur, confer, connoisseur, cordon-bleu, cri de cœur, cur, danseur, Darfur, defer, demur, de rigueur, deter, entrepreneur, er, err, farceur, faute de mieux, fir, flâneur, Fleur, force majeure, fur, hauteur, her, infer, inter, jongleur, Kerr, littérateur, longueur, masseur, Monseigneur, monsieur, Montesquieu, Montreux, murre, myrrh, occur, pas de deux, Pasteur, per, pisteur, poseur, pot-au-feu, prefer, prie-dieu, pudeur, purr, raconteur, rapporteur, refer, répétiteur, restaurateur, saboteur, sabreur, seigneur, Sher, shirr, sir, skirr, slur, souteneur, spur, stir, tant mieux, transfer, Ur, vieux jeu, voyageur, were, whirr

Definition of voyeur in US English:

voyeur

noun

1A person who gains sexual pleasure from watching others when they are naked or engaged in sexual activity.
窥淫癖者
he stood transfixed, a voyeur feasting on the swell of her buttocks
Example sentencesExamples
- The king is the cause of his own jealousy because he is a voyeur, at once aroused and made jealous by watching the object of his desire perform an act of seduction at his bidding.
- The emphasis on celluloid as the medium for voyeurs, pornographers and for exploitation rings true with other more high minded explorations of the moving image.
- During this sequence, Glen, and Wood's alter ego, Lugosi, become male voyeurs who are both disgusted, yet strangely excited, by the activities of the women.
- From being the object of voyeurism Magda becomes the voyeur, and from being the loved one turns into the lover.
- The advance of new technology, and in particular the use of cellphone cameras, has enhanced the ability of voyeurs to engage in such recordings.
- And for the voyeurs, Tessa's steamy shower scene is shocking for TV fare.
- After the car keys parties of the 1970s, hedonists are nowadays more likely to opt for pursuits such as ‘dogging’ - having sex in car parks while voyeurs watch.
- Brendan Fletcher plays a teen voyeur who likes to spy on gay men having sex in a park.
- Porn voyeurs are in for a treat next month, with the promise of a record-breaking online orgy.
- Pornographers and voyeurs communicate with each other and learn how to articulate fluctuating sexual scenarios and pornographic roles.
- Curiosity is their driving instinct, so these flitting voyeurs get their highs from watching rather than doing.
- Is photography what happens when a voyeur meets a narcissist?
- Such explicitness forces us into the role of voyeurs, and makes engagement with the paintings so fraught we loose sight of their symbolic dimension.
- In slightly different circumstances, the scene would be enough to sweep even the most demanding of voyeurs from impotence to premature ejaculation in a few hazy moments.
- Now, if you've suddenly turned into a voyeur, well, your sex life is your own business, not mine, and I don't have any right to demand an explanation of what turns you on these days.
- Did they feel he was a voyeur, peeking in windows, watching their naked bodies, making them feel ashamed?
- Like peep-show voyeurs, they want to read erotic materials and repudiate any interest in them at the same time.
- Jefferson is an obsessive voyeur, through a carefully concealed camera he watches the women at home, cooking, bathing, entertaining guests and making love.
- ‘Dave has told me he often feels like a voyeur watching the intimate dance unfold or a puppet master manipulating us with his guitar strings,’ says Webb.
- Plus, you can sit in the back and kiss your boyfriend all you want without having to worry about Peeping Toms or voyeurs.
1. 1.1 A person who enjoys seeing the pain or distress of others.
  以目击他人痛苦与不幸为乐者
  a voyeur of death
  murder trials make us voyeurs
  Example sentencesExamples
  Obviously many men did not survive the crashes I witnessed, and I felt a bit like a voyeur watching it on screen.
  The Guardian accused its competitors of pandering to a voyeur instinct by prying into Blunkett's life.
  The fact that the economy is stuck in neutral and that good jobs are hard to find makes the overcompensated especially tempting targets for TV voyeurs.
  Through these responses, viewers are checking their own desire to participate as voyeurs and to be entertained by the house guests' interpersonal dramas.
  Though I am not a voyeur, I do take some enjoyment from watching these idling drivers punch their car radios, and, if their windows are down, listening to the cacophony of sounds that emit from their sound systems.
  I feel like a reluctant voyeur, watching a flower die in heart wrenching, time lapse photography.
  Taken out of the theatre, the 13 spectators become voyeurs of a slightly dated reality show.
  We have become voyeurs getting our kicks out of other people's fun and misfortunes.
  On first viewing I remember feeling like a voyeur who should not be watching the anguish of a family under such strain and shock, all the while trying to maintain its coherence and dignity.
  This is not a film where we find ourselves empathizing with the heroine; instead, we are dispassionate voyeurs, observing her actions and unraveling clues about who she was, is, and will be.
  We watch like greedy voyeurs as he walks away from the world and its troubles.
  The domestication of the nation's tastes has become so banal that we are content to watch, as voyeurs, a middle-aged woman on Changing Rooms cry for joy at her new dining room.
  He believes Americans watch not as voyeurs but as crusaders: We want to see justice done and evildoers vanquished.
  Anna Nolan, 29, is one of ten strangers who has been locked in a house complete with 25 cameras and dozens of microphones so that Net voyeurs can satisfy their craving for warts-and-all people gazing.
  But the truth can be told with powerful understatement as well, in words and visual images that create empathy without turning the American people into paranoid voyeurs.
  This device also draws in listeners in that it asks us to be more than voyeurs; it asks us to be activists who save others from lynching.

Origin

Early 20th century: from French, from voir ‘see’.

词汇	voyeur
释义	Definition of voyeur in English: voyeur noun vwʌɪˈjəːvɔɪˈjəː 1A person who gains sexual pleasure from watching others when they are naked or engaged in sexual activity. 窥淫癖者 he stood transfixed, a voyeur feasting on the swell of her buttocks Example sentencesExamples After the car keys parties of the 1970s, hedonists are nowadays more likely to opt for pursuits such as ‘dogging’ - having sex in car parks while voyeurs watch. Like peep-show voyeurs, they want to read erotic materials and repudiate any interest in them at the same time. Curiosity is their driving instinct, so these flitting voyeurs get their highs from watching rather than doing. Such explicitness forces us into the role of voyeurs, and makes engagement with the paintings so fraught we loose sight of their symbolic dimension. The king is the cause of his own jealousy because he is a voyeur, at once aroused and made jealous by watching the object of his desire perform an act of seduction at his bidding. Plus, you can sit in the back and kiss your boyfriend all you want without having to worry about Peeping Toms or voyeurs. Pornographers and voyeurs communicate with each other and learn how to articulate fluctuating sexual scenarios and pornographic roles. Jefferson is an obsessive voyeur, through a carefully concealed camera he watches the women at home, cooking, bathing, entertaining guests and making love. Did they feel he was a voyeur, peeking in windows, watching their naked bodies, making them feel ashamed? Is photography what happens when a voyeur meets a narcissist? From being the object of voyeurism Magda becomes the voyeur, and from being the loved one turns into the lover. Now, if you've suddenly turned into a voyeur, well, your sex life is your own business, not mine, and I don't have any right to demand an explanation of what turns you on these days. The emphasis on celluloid as the medium for voyeurs, pornographers and for exploitation rings true with other more high minded explorations of the moving image. And for the voyeurs, Tessa's steamy shower scene is shocking for TV fare. The advance of new technology, and in particular the use of cellphone cameras, has enhanced the ability of voyeurs to engage in such recordings. During this sequence, Glen, and Wood's alter ego, Lugosi, become male voyeurs who are both disgusted, yet strangely excited, by the activities of the women. ‘Dave has told me he often feels like a voyeur watching the intimate dance unfold or a puppet master manipulating us with his guitar strings,’ says Webb. Brendan Fletcher plays a teen voyeur who likes to spy on gay men having sex in a park. In slightly different circumstances, the scene would be enough to sweep even the most demanding of voyeurs from impotence to premature ejaculation in a few hazy moments. Porn voyeurs are in for a treat next month, with the promise of a record-breaking online orgy. 1.1 A person who enjoys seeing the pain or distress of others. 以目击他人痛苦与不幸为乐者 a voyeur of death murder trials make us voyeurs Example sentencesExamples I feel like a reluctant voyeur, watching a flower die in heart wrenching, time lapse photography. On first viewing I remember feeling like a voyeur who should not be watching the anguish of a family under such strain and shock, all the while trying to maintain its coherence and dignity. We watch like greedy voyeurs as he walks away from the world and its troubles. Though I am not a voyeur, I do take some enjoyment from watching these idling drivers punch their car radios, and, if their windows are down, listening to the cacophony of sounds that emit from their sound systems. Obviously many men did not survive the crashes I witnessed, and I felt a bit like a voyeur watching it on screen. Through these responses, viewers are checking their own desire to participate as voyeurs and to be entertained by the house guests' interpersonal dramas. But the truth can be told with powerful understatement as well, in words and visual images that create empathy without turning the American people into paranoid voyeurs. The fact that the economy is stuck in neutral and that good jobs are hard to find makes the overcompensated especially tempting targets for TV voyeurs. This is not a film where we find ourselves empathizing with the heroine; instead, we are dispassionate voyeurs, observing her actions and unraveling clues about who she was, is, and will be. The Guardian accused its competitors of pandering to a voyeur instinct by prying into Blunkett's life. He believes Americans watch not as voyeurs but as crusaders: We want to see justice done and evildoers vanquished. We have become voyeurs getting our kicks out of other people's fun and misfortunes. Anna Nolan, 29, is one of ten strangers who has been locked in a house complete with 25 cameras and dozens of microphones so that Net voyeurs can satisfy their craving for warts-and-all people gazing. The domestication of the nation's tastes has become so banal that we are content to watch, as voyeurs, a middle-aged woman on Changing Rooms cry for joy at her new dining room. This device also draws in listeners in that it asks us to be more than voyeurs; it asks us to be activists who save others from lynching. Taken out of the theatre, the 13 spectators become voyeurs of a slightly dated reality show. Derivatives voyeuristically adverbvwʌɪjəˈrɪstɪk(ə)liˌvwɑjəˈrɪstɪk(ə)li 1In a way that relates to sexual pleasure derived from watching others when they are naked or engaged in sexual activity. 窥淫癖者 he voyeuristically filmed their liaisons using a night-time camera 1.1 In a way that relates to enjoyment derived from seeing the pain or distress of others. 以目击他人痛苦与不幸为乐者 Example sentencesExamples The audience is taken in by this and voyeuristically watches someone else's fantasy world spill out over the stage. Generally, we don't get inside the character's heads - instead we view everything from outside, voyeuristically. Some critics have seen in these sensual and voyeuristically conceived nudes the only full expression of Ingres's artistic imagination. we hope to voyeuristically glimpse fright from a distance Origin Early 20th century: from French, from voir 'see'. Rhymes à deux, agent provocateur, astir, auteur, aver, bestir, blur, bon viveur, burr, Chandigarh, coiffeur, concur, confer, connoisseur, cordon-bleu, cri de cœur, cur, danseur, Darfur, defer, demur, de rigueur, deter, entrepreneur, er, err, farceur, faute de mieux, fir, flâneur, Fleur, force majeure, fur, hauteur, her, infer, inter, jongleur, Kerr, littérateur, longueur, masseur, Monseigneur, monsieur, Montesquieu, Montreux, murre, myrrh, occur, pas de deux, Pasteur, per, pisteur, poseur, pot-au-feu, prefer, prie-dieu, pudeur, purr, raconteur, rapporteur, refer, répétiteur, restaurateur, saboteur, sabreur, seigneur, Sher, shirr, sir, skirr, slur, souteneur, spur, stir, tant mieux, transfer, Ur, vieux jeu, voyageur, were, whirr Definition of voyeur in US English: voyeur noun 1A person who gains sexual pleasure from watching others when they are naked or engaged in sexual activity. 窥淫癖者 he stood transfixed, a voyeur feasting on the swell of her buttocks Example sentencesExamples The king is the cause of his own jealousy because he is a voyeur, at once aroused and made jealous by watching the object of his desire perform an act of seduction at his bidding. The emphasis on celluloid as the medium for voyeurs, pornographers and for exploitation rings true with other more high minded explorations of the moving image. During this sequence, Glen, and Wood's alter ego, Lugosi, become male voyeurs who are both disgusted, yet strangely excited, by the activities of the women. From being the object of voyeurism Magda becomes the voyeur, and from being the loved one turns into the lover. The advance of new technology, and in particular the use of cellphone cameras, has enhanced the ability of voyeurs to engage in such recordings. And for the voyeurs, Tessa's steamy shower scene is shocking for TV fare. After the car keys parties of the 1970s, hedonists are nowadays more likely to opt for pursuits such as ‘dogging’ - having sex in car parks while voyeurs watch. Brendan Fletcher plays a teen voyeur who likes to spy on gay men having sex in a park. Porn voyeurs are in for a treat next month, with the promise of a record-breaking online orgy. Pornographers and voyeurs communicate with each other and learn how to articulate fluctuating sexual scenarios and pornographic roles. Curiosity is their driving instinct, so these flitting voyeurs get their highs from watching rather than doing. Is photography what happens when a voyeur meets a narcissist? Such explicitness forces us into the role of voyeurs, and makes engagement with the paintings so fraught we loose sight of their symbolic dimension. In slightly different circumstances, the scene would be enough to sweep even the most demanding of voyeurs from impotence to premature ejaculation in a few hazy moments. Now, if you've suddenly turned into a voyeur, well, your sex life is your own business, not mine, and I don't have any right to demand an explanation of what turns you on these days. Did they feel he was a voyeur, peeking in windows, watching their naked bodies, making them feel ashamed? Like peep-show voyeurs, they want to read erotic materials and repudiate any interest in them at the same time. Jefferson is an obsessive voyeur, through a carefully concealed camera he watches the women at home, cooking, bathing, entertaining guests and making love. ‘Dave has told me he often feels like a voyeur watching the intimate dance unfold or a puppet master manipulating us with his guitar strings,’ says Webb. Plus, you can sit in the back and kiss your boyfriend all you want without having to worry about Peeping Toms or voyeurs. 1.1 A person who enjoys seeing the pain or distress of others. 以目击他人痛苦与不幸为乐者 a voyeur of death murder trials make us voyeurs Example sentencesExamples Obviously many men did not survive the crashes I witnessed, and I felt a bit like a voyeur watching it on screen. The Guardian accused its competitors of pandering to a voyeur instinct by prying into Blunkett's life. The fact that the economy is stuck in neutral and that good jobs are hard to find makes the overcompensated especially tempting targets for TV voyeurs. Through these responses, viewers are checking their own desire to participate as voyeurs and to be entertained by the house guests' interpersonal dramas. Though I am not a voyeur, I do take some enjoyment from watching these idling drivers punch their car radios, and, if their windows are down, listening to the cacophony of sounds that emit from their sound systems. I feel like a reluctant voyeur, watching a flower die in heart wrenching, time lapse photography. Taken out of the theatre, the 13 spectators become voyeurs of a slightly dated reality show. We have become voyeurs getting our kicks out of other people's fun and misfortunes. On first viewing I remember feeling like a voyeur who should not be watching the anguish of a family under such strain and shock, all the while trying to maintain its coherence and dignity. This is not a film where we find ourselves empathizing with the heroine; instead, we are dispassionate voyeurs, observing her actions and unraveling clues about who she was, is, and will be. We watch like greedy voyeurs as he walks away from the world and its troubles. The domestication of the nation's tastes has become so banal that we are content to watch, as voyeurs, a middle-aged woman on Changing Rooms cry for joy at her new dining room. He believes Americans watch not as voyeurs but as crusaders: We want to see justice done and evildoers vanquished. Anna Nolan, 29, is one of ten strangers who has been locked in a house complete with 25 cameras and dozens of microphones so that Net voyeurs can satisfy their craving for warts-and-all people gazing. But the truth can be told with powerful understatement as well, in words and visual images that create empathy without turning the American people into paranoid voyeurs. This device also draws in listeners in that it asks us to be more than voyeurs; it asks us to be activists who save others from lynching. Origin Early 20th century: from French, from voir ‘see’.
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