nympholepsyn.

Brit.

/ˈnɪmfəlɛpsi/, U.S.

/ˈnɪmfoʊˌlɛpsi/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a Greek lexical item. Etymons: nymph n.¹, -o- connective, -lepsy comb. form.

Etymology: < nymph n.¹ + -o- connective + -lepsy comb. form, after ancient Greek νυμϕόληπτος (see nympholept n. and adj.).

Passion supposedly inspired in men by nymphs; an ecstasy or yearning, esp. that caused by desire for something unattainable. Also: passion or desire aroused in men by young girls.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > excitement > extravagant or rapturous excitement > [noun]

woodnessc1000

excess1423

inebriation1526

madness1595

deliration1603

raptery1640

mania1689

intoxication1712

ebriety1751

delirium1757

nympholepsy1776

inebriety1786

orgiasm1840

raptus1845

ebriosity1854

slap-happiness1958

the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > vehement or passionate desire > [noun]

heartburna1325

concupiscencec1340

firelihead1340

ardourc1386

zealc1451

ardency1549

fervency1554

cupiscence1647

lust1679

mania1689

nympholepsy1776

nympholepsia1885

the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > frenzy or raging

wood dreameOE

frenzyc1340

furor1477

rammistnessc1485

wildnessc1540

willnessc1540

frenzicness1547

frenziness1594

phrenition1642

amok1665

nympholepsy1776

nympholepsia1885

1776 R. Chandler Trav. Greece xxxii. 152 Nympholepsy is characterized as a frenzy, which arose from having beheld them [sc. the nymphs].

1818 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto IV cxv. 60 A young Aurora of the air, The nympholepsy of some fond despair.

1833 E. Bulwer-Lytton Godolphin I. xx. 248 The most common disease to genius is nympholepsy—the saddening for a spirit that the world knows not.

1839 T. De Quincey Sketches Life & Manners in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 578/2 He languished, with a sort of despairing nympholepsy, after intellectual pleasures.

1888 Times 21 Aug. 8/4 I have not been reduced to a state of nympholepsy by any of the beauty that I have been privileged to behold.

1955 V. Nabokov Lolita I. xxix. 172 The science of nympholepsy is a precise science. Actual contact would do it in one second flat. An interspace of a millimeter would do it in ten.

1974 Times Lit. Suppl. 8 Feb. 122/3 His congenital nympholepsy for slender girls with thin arms.

1992 Harper's Mag. Mar. 5/1 The radicals were bogus, preferring the delights of nympholepsy to the real work of politics.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	nympholepsy
释义	nympholepsyn. Brit. /ˈnɪmfəlɛpsi/, U.S. /ˈnɪmfoʊˌlɛpsi/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a Greek lexical item. Etymons: nymph n.¹, -o- connective, -lepsy comb. form. Etymology: < nymph n.¹ + -o- connective + -lepsy comb. form, after ancient Greek νυμϕόληπτος (see nympholept n. and adj.). Passion supposedly inspired in men by nymphs; an ecstasy or yearning, esp. that caused by desire for something unattainable. Also: passion or desire aroused in men by young girls. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > excitement > extravagant or rapturous excitement > [noun] woodnessc1000 excess1423 inebriation1526 madness1595 deliration1603 raptery1640 mania1689 intoxication1712 ebriety1751 delirium1757 nympholepsy1776 inebriety1786 orgiasm1840 raptus1845 ebriosity1854 slap-happiness1958 the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > vehement or passionate desire > [noun] heartburna1325 concupiscencec1340 firelihead1340 ardourc1386 zealc1451 ardency1549 fervency1554 cupiscence1647 lust1679 mania1689 nympholepsy1776 nympholepsia1885 the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > frenzy or raging wood dreameOE frenzyc1340 furor1477 rammistnessc1485 wildnessc1540 willnessc1540 frenzicness1547 frenziness1594 phrenition1642 amok1665 nympholepsy1776 nympholepsia1885 1776 R. Chandler Trav. Greece xxxii. 152 Nympholepsy is characterized as a frenzy, which arose from having beheld them [sc. the nymphs]. 1818 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto IV cxv. 60 A young Aurora of the air, The nympholepsy of some fond despair. 1833 E. Bulwer-Lytton Godolphin I. xx. 248 The most common disease to genius is nympholepsy—the saddening for a spirit that the world knows not. 1839 T. De Quincey Sketches Life & Manners in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 578/2 He languished, with a sort of despairing nympholepsy, after intellectual pleasures. 1888 Times 21 Aug. 8/4 I have not been reduced to a state of nympholepsy by any of the beauty that I have been privileged to behold. 1955 V. Nabokov Lolita I. xxix. 172 The science of nympholepsy is a precise science. Actual contact would do it in one second flat. An interspace of a millimeter would do it in ten. 1974 Times Lit. Suppl. 8 Feb. 122/3 His congenital nympholepsy for slender girls with thin arms. 1992 Harper's Mag. Mar. 5/1 The radicals were bogus, preferring the delights of nympholepsy to the real work of politics. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1776
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