coprographia

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English

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Etymology

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From copro- (dung) +‎ Latin -graphia (-graphy).

Noun

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coprographia (uncountable)

  1. (psychiatry) The making of vulgar writings or drawings, especially when done involuntarily.
    • 1995, Mary Robertson, Valsamma Eapen, Movement and Allied Disorders in Childhood, page 2:
      Symptoms such as mental coprolalia (the thinking of obscenities), coprographia (the writing of obscenities) and mental palilalia are usually unrecognized unless specifically asked about.
    • 1995, James C. Harris, Developmental Neuropsychiatry, page 477:
      Trimble (199 ) has noted tatooing in some individuals with Tourette's disorder and also coprographia.
    • 2004, F Clifford Rose, Neurology Of The Arts: Painting, Music And Literature, page 325:
      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.
    • 2005, Jean-Ronel Corbier, Optimal Treatment for Children with Autism and Other Neuropsychiatric Conditions, page 43:
      Some speculate that Mozart the musician had coprographia.

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