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noun Psychiatry.
- abnormally strong or persistent sexual desire.
noun
- abnormally strong sexual desire
- a condition in which a person is obsessed with another person and groundlessly believes that person to be in love with him or her
“one driven mad by passionate love” (sometimes also used in the sense of “nymphomaniac”), 1858, from erotomania (1813, defined then as “Desperate love; sentimentalism producing morbid feelings”), from comb. form of erotic + mania.
n.
- Excessive sexual desire.