different between nympholept vs nympholeptic

English

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

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.

nympho- +? -leptic

nympholeptic (comparative more nympholeptic, superlative most nympholeptic)

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