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‖ nymphomania Path.|nɪmfəˈmeɪnɪə|
[f. Gr. νύµϕη bride, nymph n. + µανία madness.]
A feminine disease characterized by morbid and uncontrollable sexual desire.
1775E. S. Wilmot tr. de Bienville (title) Nymphomania, or, a dissertation concerning the furor uterinus. 1800tr. Cullen's Nosology (1820) 230 Melancholia..(c) With vehement love, without satyriasis or nymphomania. 1860Tanner Pregnancy xi. 435 In a few rare cases, the attack has degenerated into nymphomania. 1876D. Ferrier Functions Brain 122 The girl..in whom the cerebellum was absent suffered from nymphomania. 1905Moussu & Dollar Dis. Cattle vii. iv. 562 Nymphomania may be considered as almost invariably the result of a genital lesion. 1962C. Allen Textbk. Psychosexual Disorders v. xvi. 306 Since writers..have become fascinated with the concept of nymphomania..it might be as well here to state that it is clinically very rare. 1967L. W. van den Heever tr. Heidrich & Renk's Dis. Mammary Glands Domestic Anim. v. 48/1 In nymphomania the cysts should be ruptured when possible and chorionic gonadotropin..administered subcutaneously or intracystally to prevent recrudescence.
Hence nymphoˈmaniac (and -manic) a., of or belonging to nymphomania; n., one suffering from nymphomania; also nymphomaˈniacal a.
1861J. Millar Hints on Insanity 40 Though nympho⁓manic symptoms are constantly present when young females are insane. 1867H. Maudsley Physiol. Mind 285 She,..though ultimately married, was a regular nymphomaniac. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 279 The furious nympho⁓maniac who embraces every man she can get at. 1900Lancet 24 Mar. 866/2 It is practised upon mares..which have nymphomaniac tendencies. 1906J. Joyce Let. 13 Nov. (1966) II. 193 Cosgrave [was sure] that I would become a nymphomaniac. 1923Physiol. Rev. III. 338 The writer has examined a section..of an ovary of a nymphomaniac cow. 1923A. Huxley Antic Hay xx. 287 When I call my lover a nymphomaniacal dog, she runs the penknife into my arm. 1932Gaiger & Davies Vet. Pathol. & Bacteriol. III. xxxv. 513 The presence of nymphomaniac cysts is always accompanied by sterility, even though the cysts are confined to one ovary. 1949‘J. Tey’ Brat Farrar xxiii. 208 Pawning his life to a nymphomaniacal moron. 1967L. W. van den Heever tr. Heidrich & Renk's Dis. Mammary Glands Domestic Anim. iii. 34/2 Protracted nymphomaniacal estrus associated with relaxation of the pelvic ligaments, vaginal prolapse, nervousness and aggressiveness is commonly encountered. 1969C. Allen Textbk. Psychosexual Disorders (ed. 2) v. xvi. 356 Nymphomaniacs who have a compulsion due to brain lesions, hormonal imbalance or other physical abnormalities. 1973R. Hayes Hungarian Game viii. 59 From different sources I'd heard that she was nymphomaniacal or homosexual or frigid. |