Definition of nymphomania in English:

nymphomania

noun ˌnɪmfəˈmeɪnɪəˌnɪmfəˈmeɪniə

mass noun

Uncontrollable or excessive sexual desire in a woman.
慕男狂，女色情狂
Example sentencesExamples
- Yet it is clear that, paradoxically, there also developed a counter discourse rooted in Kinsey and continued in Masters and Johnson that now viewed much of what previously had been dubbed as nymphomania in positive terms.
- The only thing that strikes me as dubious, I think, is the implication of nymphomania of a kind in the case of Nadia the exchange student, who, when Jim asks her if she really wants him, says, ‘well…’
- But for all this luxury and high-society living, I'm glad to say that we never fell into the trappings of drug-addiction and male nymphomania (the latter could be attributed to our pre-pubescent state).
- Sheriff explicates the metaphor of fire as it was used to connect nymphomania to the passions, including enthusiasm.
- There is a word for the hatred of men, just as there is one for the male counterpart to nymphomania: they are ‘misandry’ and ‘satyriasis,’ respectively.
- Groneman's amassing of evidence for how the older discourse of nymphomania has been replaced by the new discourse of sex addiction is far more convincing than her material on the Victorians.
- There is some basis for the rumour in her defiance of imperial protocol by riding cross-saddle, and a hint of overstimulation in her breathless reports of frantic gallops, but Catherine's nymphomania is a schoolboy legend.
- At that point Chandler's own debut, The Big Sleep, was causing some controversy with its various subplots concerning pornography and nymphomania.
- Essentially, Waters equates nymphomania with zealotry, and in doing so reaffirms his historic place as the icon of trash cinema.
- Exposure to tropical climate, contemporary medical opinion averred, produced nymphomania in white women.
- As for suburban nymphomania - well, the most I've ever been offered is a cup of Tea and a Jaffa cake.
- Dallas' account of her journey into nymphomania is really an account of her development into a mature, self-empowered woman and a mother who's aware of her responsibility to her daughter.
- In the past, other labels such as nymphomania, satyriasis, and hyper-sexuality have been used.
- My self-diagnosed nymphomania is kicking in, and I really want to just go pick up a worthless relationship, just someone to use like Tom does, for a night of sex, and kick them out before breakfast.
- The cover lines dwell obsessively on nymphomania, the perils of homosexuality, how wives sap their husbands' virility, passion-crazed divorcees, and ways to master the sexually aggressive woman.
- The removal of both ovaries was considered an acceptable treatment for nymphomania and other behaviors thought to be undesirable for women.

Derivatives

nymphomaniac

noun nɪmfəˈmeɪnɪaknɪmfəˈmeɪniˌæk

A woman with uncontrollable or excessive sexual desire.
慕男狂，女色情狂
Susanna also sought out fleeting sexual relations with doctors and teachers, and was diagnosed as suffering from ‘a nymphomaniac compulsion.’
Example sentencesExamples
- I know no one around here is deluded enough to think that all men are evil satyrs, and all women repressed nymphomaniacs who embrace passivity.
- Stricken with a mysterious ailment, Jallel is forced to get treatment in a mental hospital where he meets Lucie, a strange doe-eyed nymphomaniac.

nymphomaniacal

adjective ˌnɪmfə(ʊ)məˈnʌɪək(ə)lˌnɪmfoʊməˈnaɪək(ə)l

I don't just say that because I personally am some kind of nymphomaniacal sex fiend, but because it really was the only interesting side of the story.
Example sentencesExamples
- In other words, he argues, music videos are filmed in such a way as to suggest that women's bodies are there to be looked at and that, in fact, the nymphomaniacal women in the videos want to be looked at.
- Red-headed Isobel is promiscuous to the extent of being nymphomaniacal.

Origin

Late 18th century: modern Latin, from Latin nympha (see nymph) + -mania.

Rhymes

Albania, balletomania, bibliomania, crania, dipsomania, egomania, erotomania, kleptomania, Lithuania, Lusitania, mania, Mauritania, megalomania, miscellanea, monomania, Pennsylvania, Pomerania, pyromania, Rainier, Romania, Ruritania, Tasmania, Transylvania, Urania

Definition of nymphomania in US English:

nymphomania

nounˌnimfəˈmānēəˌnɪmfəˈmeɪniə

Uncontrollable or excessive sexual desire in a woman.
慕男狂，女色情狂
Compare with satyriasis
Example sentencesExamples
- Sheriff explicates the metaphor of fire as it was used to connect nymphomania to the passions, including enthusiasm.
- But for all this luxury and high-society living, I'm glad to say that we never fell into the trappings of drug-addiction and male nymphomania (the latter could be attributed to our pre-pubescent state).
- At that point Chandler's own debut, The Big Sleep, was causing some controversy with its various subplots concerning pornography and nymphomania.
- My self-diagnosed nymphomania is kicking in, and I really want to just go pick up a worthless relationship, just someone to use like Tom does, for a night of sex, and kick them out before breakfast.
- Exposure to tropical climate, contemporary medical opinion averred, produced nymphomania in white women.
- Yet it is clear that, paradoxically, there also developed a counter discourse rooted in Kinsey and continued in Masters and Johnson that now viewed much of what previously had been dubbed as nymphomania in positive terms.
- The removal of both ovaries was considered an acceptable treatment for nymphomania and other behaviors thought to be undesirable for women.
- There is a word for the hatred of men, just as there is one for the male counterpart to nymphomania: they are ‘misandry’ and ‘satyriasis,’ respectively.
- The only thing that strikes me as dubious, I think, is the implication of nymphomania of a kind in the case of Nadia the exchange student, who, when Jim asks her if she really wants him, says, ‘well…’
- There is some basis for the rumour in her defiance of imperial protocol by riding cross-saddle, and a hint of overstimulation in her breathless reports of frantic gallops, but Catherine's nymphomania is a schoolboy legend.
- Groneman's amassing of evidence for how the older discourse of nymphomania has been replaced by the new discourse of sex addiction is far more convincing than her material on the Victorians.
- In the past, other labels such as nymphomania, satyriasis, and hyper-sexuality have been used.
- Essentially, Waters equates nymphomania with zealotry, and in doing so reaffirms his historic place as the icon of trash cinema.
- Dallas' account of her journey into nymphomania is really an account of her development into a mature, self-empowered woman and a mother who's aware of her responsibility to her daughter.
- As for suburban nymphomania - well, the most I've ever been offered is a cup of Tea and a Jaffa cake.
- The cover lines dwell obsessively on nymphomania, the perils of homosexuality, how wives sap their husbands' virility, passion-crazed divorcees, and ways to master the sexually aggressive woman.

Origin

Late 18th century: modern Latin, from Latin nympha (see nymph) + -mania.

单词	nymphomania
释义	Definition of nymphomania in English: nymphomania noun ˌnɪmfəˈmeɪnɪəˌnɪmfəˈmeɪniə mass noun Uncontrollable or excessive sexual desire in a woman. 慕男狂，女色情狂 Example sentencesExamples Yet it is clear that, paradoxically, there also developed a counter discourse rooted in Kinsey and continued in Masters and Johnson that now viewed much of what previously had been dubbed as nymphomania in positive terms. The only thing that strikes me as dubious, I think, is the implication of nymphomania of a kind in the case of Nadia the exchange student, who, when Jim asks her if she really wants him, says, ‘well…’ But for all this luxury and high-society living, I'm glad to say that we never fell into the trappings of drug-addiction and male nymphomania (the latter could be attributed to our pre-pubescent state). Sheriff explicates the metaphor of fire as it was used to connect nymphomania to the passions, including enthusiasm. There is a word for the hatred of men, just as there is one for the male counterpart to nymphomania: they are ‘misandry’ and ‘satyriasis,’ respectively. Groneman's amassing of evidence for how the older discourse of nymphomania has been replaced by the new discourse of sex addiction is far more convincing than her material on the Victorians. There is some basis for the rumour in her defiance of imperial protocol by riding cross-saddle, and a hint of overstimulation in her breathless reports of frantic gallops, but Catherine's nymphomania is a schoolboy legend. At that point Chandler's own debut, The Big Sleep, was causing some controversy with its various subplots concerning pornography and nymphomania. Essentially, Waters equates nymphomania with zealotry, and in doing so reaffirms his historic place as the icon of trash cinema. Exposure to tropical climate, contemporary medical opinion averred, produced nymphomania in white women. As for suburban nymphomania - well, the most I've ever been offered is a cup of Tea and a Jaffa cake. Dallas' account of her journey into nymphomania is really an account of her development into a mature, self-empowered woman and a mother who's aware of her responsibility to her daughter. In the past, other labels such as nymphomania, satyriasis, and hyper-sexuality have been used. My self-diagnosed nymphomania is kicking in, and I really want to just go pick up a worthless relationship, just someone to use like Tom does, for a night of sex, and kick them out before breakfast. The cover lines dwell obsessively on nymphomania, the perils of homosexuality, how wives sap their husbands' virility, passion-crazed divorcees, and ways to master the sexually aggressive woman. The removal of both ovaries was considered an acceptable treatment for nymphomania and other behaviors thought to be undesirable for women. Derivatives nymphomaniac noun nɪmfəˈmeɪnɪaknɪmfəˈmeɪniˌæk A woman with uncontrollable or excessive sexual desire. 慕男狂，女色情狂 Susanna also sought out fleeting sexual relations with doctors and teachers, and was diagnosed as suffering from ‘a nymphomaniac compulsion.’ Example sentencesExamples I know no one around here is deluded enough to think that all men are evil satyrs, and all women repressed nymphomaniacs who embrace passivity. Stricken with a mysterious ailment, Jallel is forced to get treatment in a mental hospital where he meets Lucie, a strange doe-eyed nymphomaniac. nymphomaniacal adjective ˌnɪmfə(ʊ)məˈnʌɪək(ə)lˌnɪmfoʊməˈnaɪək(ə)l I don't just say that because I personally am some kind of nymphomaniacal sex fiend, but because it really was the only interesting side of the story. Example sentencesExamples In other words, he argues, music videos are filmed in such a way as to suggest that women's bodies are there to be looked at and that, in fact, the nymphomaniacal women in the videos want to be looked at. Red-headed Isobel is promiscuous to the extent of being nymphomaniacal. Origin Late 18th century: modern Latin, from Latin nympha (see nymph) + -mania. Rhymes Albania, balletomania, bibliomania, crania, dipsomania, egomania, erotomania, kleptomania, Lithuania, Lusitania, mania, Mauritania, megalomania, miscellanea, monomania, Pennsylvania, Pomerania, pyromania, Rainier, Romania, Ruritania, Tasmania, Transylvania, Urania Definition of nymphomania in US English: nymphomania nounˌnimfəˈmānēəˌnɪmfəˈmeɪniə Uncontrollable or excessive sexual desire in a woman. 慕男狂，女色情狂 Compare with satyriasis Example sentencesExamples Sheriff explicates the metaphor of fire as it was used to connect nymphomania to the passions, including enthusiasm. But for all this luxury and high-society living, I'm glad to say that we never fell into the trappings of drug-addiction and male nymphomania (the latter could be attributed to our pre-pubescent state). At that point Chandler's own debut, The Big Sleep, was causing some controversy with its various subplots concerning pornography and nymphomania. My self-diagnosed nymphomania is kicking in, and I really want to just go pick up a worthless relationship, just someone to use like Tom does, for a night of sex, and kick them out before breakfast. Exposure to tropical climate, contemporary medical opinion averred, produced nymphomania in white women. Yet it is clear that, paradoxically, there also developed a counter discourse rooted in Kinsey and continued in Masters and Johnson that now viewed much of what previously had been dubbed as nymphomania in positive terms. The removal of both ovaries was considered an acceptable treatment for nymphomania and other behaviors thought to be undesirable for women. There is a word for the hatred of men, just as there is one for the male counterpart to nymphomania: they are ‘misandry’ and ‘satyriasis,’ respectively. The only thing that strikes me as dubious, I think, is the implication of nymphomania of a kind in the case of Nadia the exchange student, who, when Jim asks her if she really wants him, says, ‘well…’ There is some basis for the rumour in her defiance of imperial protocol by riding cross-saddle, and a hint of overstimulation in her breathless reports of frantic gallops, but Catherine's nymphomania is a schoolboy legend. Groneman's amassing of evidence for how the older discourse of nymphomania has been replaced by the new discourse of sex addiction is far more convincing than her material on the Victorians. In the past, other labels such as nymphomania, satyriasis, and hyper-sexuality have been used. Essentially, Waters equates nymphomania with zealotry, and in doing so reaffirms his historic place as the icon of trash cinema. Dallas' account of her journey into nymphomania is really an account of her development into a mature, self-empowered woman and a mother who's aware of her responsibility to her daughter. As for suburban nymphomania - well, the most I've ever been offered is a cup of Tea and a Jaffa cake. The cover lines dwell obsessively on nymphomania, the perils of homosexuality, how wives sap their husbands' virility, passion-crazed divorcees, and ways to master the sexually aggressive woman. Origin Late 18th century: modern Latin, from Latin nympha (see nymph) + -mania.
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