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nymphomania definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: abnormally intense sexual desire in women

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: New Latin, from nymphae inner lips of the vulva (from Latin, plural of nympha) + Late Latin mania mania Date: 1775 excessive sexual desire by a female • nymphomaniac noun or adjective • nymphomaniacal adjective

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. excessive sexual desire in women. Derivatives: nymphomaniac n. & adj. Etymology: mod.L (as NYMPH, -MANIA)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Nymphomania Nym`pho*ma"ni*a, n. [Gr. ? a bride + ? madness.] (Med.) Morbid and uncontrollable sexual desire in women, constituting a true disease.

Moby Thesaurus

andromania, animality, aphrodisia, bawdiness, biological urge, bodily appetite, carnal desire, carnality, clitoromania, concupiscence, desire, dirtiness, eromania, eroticism, eroticomania, eroticomaniac, erotism, erotomania, fleshliness, fleshly lust, furor uterinus, goatishness, gynecomania, horniness, hot blood, hot pants, hysteromania, indecency, infantile sexuality, itch, lasciviousness, lecherousness, lechery, lewdness, libidinousness, lickerishness, lubriciousness, lubricity, lust, lustfulness, obscenity, passion, polymorphous perversity, prurience, pruriency, randiness, salaciousness, salacity, satyriasis, satyrism, sensuality, sexiness, sexual desire, sexual longing, sexual passion, sexuality, uteromania, venereal appetite