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nympholepsy
English
Etymology
nympho- +? -lepsy
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?n?mf??l?psi/
Noun
nympholepsy (countable and uncountable, plural nympholepsies)
- 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
- 1852, Mary Edgewood Lazarus, Love Vs. Marriage: Part 1, page 292
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)
- 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.
- 1922, D.H. Lawrence, "The Evening Land":
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