voyeur
noun [C] /vwɑːˈjɜːr/
/-ˈjɝː/ disapprovingDefinition
› a person who gets sexual pleasure from secretly watching other people in sexual situations, or (more generally) a person who watches other people's private lives: I felt like a voyeur visiting the war zone and seeing badly injured people being dragged from their bomb-shattered homes.Relating to sexual preference voyeurism /ˈvwɑː.jɜː.rɪ.zəm/
/-jɝː-/ noun [U] voyeuristic /ˌvwɑː.jɜːˈrɪ.stɪk/
/-jəˈrɪs.tɪk/ adjective
/-jɝː-/ noun [U] voyeuristic /ˌvwɑː.jɜːˈrɪ.stɪk/
/-jəˈrɪs.tɪk/ adjective (Definition of voyeur noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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