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erotomaniacal

erotomaniacal adjective: having the psychological condition of erotomania.

Adjective

erotomaniacal (comparative more erotomaniacal, superlative most erotomaniacal)

  1. Having the psychological condition of erotomania.
    • At all events, whatever be the result, we think it would not be easy for a hypochondriacal gentleman to find a sane lady who would undertake his cure in this manner; and may be equally doubted whether any sane gentleman would undertake the cure of an erotomaniacal damsel. Probably M. Villermay may...1829, THE EDINBURGH MEDICAL AND SURGICAL JOURNAL: EXHIBITING A CONCISE VIEW OF THE LATEST AND MOST IMPORTANT DISCOVERIES IN MEDICINE, SURGERY AND PHARMACY., volume Thirty-First, page 366
    • As a vicious hysteric, Bertha Mason’s madness is precipitated by an erotomaniacal response.2024, Nicole C. Dittmer, Monstrous Women and Ecofeminism in the Victorian Gothic, 1837–1871, Rowman & Littlefield, page 86

Forms of erotomaniacal

comparativemore erotomaniacal
superlativemost erotomaniacal

Origin of erotomaniacal

From erotomaniac + -al.

Questions about erotomaniacal

What does erotomaniacal mean?
Erotomaniacal means having the psychological condition of erotomania.
What part of speech is erotomaniacal?
Erotomaniacal is an adjective.

Words near erotomaniacal in the dictionary

  1. erotology
  2. erotomane
  3. erotomanes
  4. erotomania
  5. erotomaniac
  6. erotomaniacal
  7. erotomaniacs
  8. erotomanias
  9. erotomanic
  10. erotomanics
  11. erotopath

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