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Nymphomania

noun
1.
Abnormally intense sexual desire in women.



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... word is from numbness, torpor, narcotism: the flowers, being loved by the infernal gods, were offered to the Furies. Narcissus and Hippolytus are often assumed as types of morose voluptas, masturbation and clitorisation for nymphomania: certain mediaeval writers found in the former a type of the Saviour, and 'Mirabeau a representation of the androgynous or first Adam: to me Narcissus suggests the Hindu Vishnu absorbed in the contemplation of his ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 10 • Richard F. Burton


Words linked to "Nymphomania" :   concupiscence, nymphomaniacal, eros, sexual desire, physical attraction


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