(law) A legal defense according to which a murderer had no choice but to kill their violent partner in response to cumulative abuse rather than a single provocation.

plural of person from Porlock

(idiomatic) One whose inconvenient interruption prevents the completion of something important.

A hypothesized phenomenon by which people tend to perceive that mass media messages have a greater effect on others than on themselves, based on personal biases.

plural of highly sensitive person

(psychology) an individual with a particularly high measure of sensory processing sensitivity

Alternative form of minor-attracted person.

plural of minor attracted person

plural of minor-attracted person

(euphemistic, nonstandard) A pedophile; including nepiophiles, hebephiles and ephebophiles.