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nympholepsies

nympholepsies is the plural of nympholepsy.

Meaning of nympholepsy

Noun

nympholepsy (countable and uncountable, plural nympholepsies)

  1. A frenzied state of (usually erotic) emotion, especially concerning something or someone unattainable.
    • If young persons of both sexes were brought together in the honest practical relations of organized labor, we should see no more of these fond nympholepsies1852, Mary Edgewood Lazarus, Love Vs. Marriage: Part 1, page 292
  2. Nymphophilia.
    • 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.1955, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter XXIX, in Lolita, volume I, page 172
    Synonyms:
    Lolita complex, Lolita syndrome, nymphophilia

Questions about nympholepsies

What is nympholepsies the plural of?
Nympholepsies is the plural of nympholepsy.

Words near nympholepsies in the dictionary

  1. nymphochrysalises
  2. nymphoes
  3. nymphoid
  4. nymphoids
  5. nympholepsia
  6. nympholepsies
  7. nympholepsy
  8. nympholept
  9. nympholeptic
  10. nympholepts
  11. nymphologist

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