body modification
English
Noun
body modification (countable and uncountable, plural body modifications)
- Deliberate physical alteration of the human body for aesthetic purposes, such as tattooing and piercing.
- 2008, Belinda Bennett, Terry Carney, Isabel Karpin, Brave New World of Health, page 78:
- Voluntary amputeeism or apotemnophilia — where the subject wishes to have a limb or appendage removed — might arguably fall within the category of radical body modification.
Further reading
- “body modification”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “body modification”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “body modification” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.
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