nympholepsy
/ˈnɪmfəˌlɛpsi/
nympholepsy noun: a frenzied state of (usually erotic) emotion, especially concerning something or someone unattainable.
Noun
nympholepsy (countable and uncountable, plural nympholepsies)
- 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
- 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
Synonyms of nympholepsy
- Lolita complex
- Lolita syndrome
- nymphophilia
Forms of nympholepsy
| plural | nympholepsies |
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Origin of nympholepsy
From nympho- + -lepsy, after Ancient Greek νυμφόληπτος (numphólēptos, “frenzied by the nymphs”, adjective).
Questions about nympholepsy
- What does nympholepsy mean?
- Nympholepsy means a frenzied state of (usually erotic) emotion, especially concerning something or someone unattainable.
- What part of speech is nympholepsy?
- Nympholepsy is a noun.
- How do you pronounce nympholepsy?
- Nympholepsy is pronounced /ˈnɪmfəˌlɛpsi/.
- What is the plural of nympholepsy?
- The plural of nympholepsy is nympholepsies.
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