Usually means: Attraction to one's own creation.
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  1. Pygmalionism, pygmalionism: Wiktionary
  2. pygmalionism: Dictionary.com

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  1. pygmalionism: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  1. Glossary of Unusual Sexual Practices (No longer online)
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Definitions from Wiktionary (Pygmalionism)

▸ noun:  Love for an object of one's own creation.
▸ noun:  Alternative form of Pygmalionism [Love for an object of one's own creation.]

Similar:
pygmalion, galatea, egotheism, gyneolatry, mythopoesis, mythicism, theophilia, love, imago, autolatry, more...

Opposite:
golem effect

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Similar:
pygmalion, galatea, egotheism, gyneolatry, mythopoesis, mythicism, theophilia, love, imago, autolatry, more...

Opposite:
golem effect



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