nympholepsy

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Scrabble points
26
Words With Friends
28
Letters
11
Pronunciation
/ˈnɪmfəˌlɛpsi/

Definition of nympholepsy

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)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 nympholepsies”
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noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)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 nympholepsies”
  2. (countable, uncountable)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.”

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Etymology

From nympho- + -lepsy, after Ancient Greek νυμφόληπτος (numphólēptos, “frenzied by the nymphs”, adjective).

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