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# The Good Oil Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-good-oil-word-of-the-day-223/
- Published: 2025-03-15T17:15:11.000Z
- Updated: 2025-03-15T17:15:10.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, Word of the Day

The word for today is…

voyeur (noun): 

1a: someone who obtains sexual gratification from observing unsuspecting individuals who are partly undressed, naked, or engaged in sexual acts

broadly : someone who habitually seeks sexual stimulation by visual means

b: a person who commits the crime of voyeurism

2: a prying observer who is usually seeking the sordid or the scandalous

Source : [Merriam -Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/voyeur?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : Voyeur is a fairly recent addition to English; our earliest written evidence for the word dates from the beginning of the 20th century. It comes directly from a French noun meaning, literally, “one who sees.”

Initially, voyeur referred to someone who derived sexual pleasure from watching others undress or engage in intimate acts; it was synonymous with Peeping Tom. By the middle of the 20th century, its meaning had broadened to "an unduly prying observer," particularly one interested in squalid or shocking details:

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