body modification

English

Noun

body modification (countable and uncountable, plural body modifications)

1. 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.