nymphomaniacn.adj.
/ˌnɪmfəˈmeɪnɪak/, U.S. /ˌnɪmfoʊˈmeɪniˌæk/ A. n.
A woman (or, rarely: a man) exhibiting nymphomania.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual desire > [noun] > excessive or uncontrollable > person
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nympho1934
the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > compulsion neurosis > nymphomania > person
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1828 Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. Aug. 291 The nymphomaniac too, has received a no less share of our condolence.
1844 Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. 7 190 Esquirol has successfully treated hysteric nymphomaniacs with the same remedy [sc. a drachm of camphor].
1867 H. Maudsley Physiol. & Pathol. of Mind 285 She,..though ultimately married, was a regular nymphomaniac.
1906 J. Joyce Let. 13 Nov. (1966) II. 193 Cosgrave [was sure] that I would become a nymphomaniac.
1923 A. Huxley Antic Hay xiv. 217 Vicious young women. Lesbians, drug-fiends, nymphomaniacs, dipsos—thoroughly vicious, nowadays.
1969 C. Allen Textbk. Psychosexual Disorders (ed. 2) v. xvi. 356 Nymphomaniacs who have a compulsion due to brain lesions, hormonal imbalance or other physical abnormalities.
1986 J. Lopatin Mod. Romances 141 ‘Oh, that guy's a nymphomaniac,’ he said disparagingly. I had never heard a man described as a nymphomaniac before.
1993 J. Green It: Sex since Sixties 202 Most of them aren't nymphomaniacs, most of them are after the money to feed a coke habit.
2001 Sunday Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Nexis) 16 Dec. 43 He was, in the words of Times columnist Mike Downey, ‘a male nymphomaniac’.
B. adj.
Of, relating to, associated with, or exhibiting nymphomania; characteristic of a nymphomaniac.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual desire > [adjective] > excessive or uncontrollable sexual desire
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > morbidly preoccupied > nymphomaniac
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1831 T. Cooper tr. F. J. V. Broussais On Irritation & Insanity II. v. 215 Traces of chronic inflammation in nymphomaniac females.
1844 Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. Jan. Alibert cites the case of a nymphomaniac patient at St. Louis, whom he cured by a drachm of camphor at a dose.
1900 Lancet 24 Mar. 866/2 It is practised upon mares..which have nymphomaniac tendencies.
1923 Physiol. Rev. 3 338 The writer has examined a section..of an ovary of a nymphomaniac cow.
1932 S. H. Gaiger & G. O. 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.
1948 S. J. Folley & F. H. Malpress in G. Pincus & K. V. Thimann Hormones I. 787 Although estrogen values may be high during pregnancy, estrous or nymphomaniac symptoms are not customarily exhibited at these times.
1951 K. Amis Let. 22 Dec. (2000) 266 I had a successful drawing of a blonde with nymphomaniac eyes and a fellator's mouth.
1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 21 Mar. 159/3 The build-up is good: a rich crippled husband, fixated on his only son; a nymphomaniac wife, [etc.].
1990 Internat. H & E Monthly 92 No. 2. 49/3 First Man, ‘What's your ideal wench?’ Second Man, ‘A big breasted young, dumb, nymphomaniac bimbo who lives over a pub!’
2012 J. Ross Moving Lessons ii. 31 There were many negative images of women in the late nineteenth century, ranging from the nun to..the dangerous, hysterical, or nymphomaniac woman.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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