Other forms: exhibitionists
An exhibitionist is somebody who behaves so as to be noticed. A shameless exhibitionist, something of an exhibitionist, exhibitionist tendencies.
In ordinary use it is mild and means somebody who plays to a room. In psychiatry and in law it names a specific and quite different offence, which is why the word is worth using carefully.
1nounexhibitionistSomebody who behaves so as to be noticed.
“He's a real exhibitionist, always dancing on tables at parties to get attention.”
exhibitionist is a person.
Old French
exhibicion
English
exhibition
English, today
exhibitionist
From exhibition + -ist. exhibition comes from Old French exhibicion. Equivalent to exhibit + ion.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA