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nympholepsy

English

Etymology

nympho- +? -lepsy

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?n?mf??l?psi/

Noun

nympholepsy (countable and uncountable, plural nympholepsies)

  1. A frenzied state of (usually erotic) emotion, especially concerning something or someone unattainable.
    • 1852, Mary Edgewood Lazarus, Love Vs. Marriage: Part 1, page 292
      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

Related terms

  • nympholept

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nympholept

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????????? (numphól?ptos, caught by nymphs, frenzied), from ????? (númph?) + ??????? (lambán?, I take).

Noun

nympholept (plural nympholepts)

  1. A person in a state of nympholepsy.
    • 1922, D.H. Lawrence, "The Evening Land":
      Dark faery, / Modern, unissued, instinctive America, / Your nascent faery people / Lurking among the deeps of your industrial thicket, / Allure me till I am beside myself, / A nympholept.

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