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Definition of Nymphomaniacal
1. Adjective. (used of women) affected with excessive sexual desire.
Similar to: Neurotic, Psychoneurotic
Derivative terms: Nymphomaniac, Nymphomania
Definition of Nymphomaniacal
1. Adjective. Characteristic of nymphomania or a nymphomaniac ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nymphomaniacal
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Nymphomaniacal
1. Pertaining to, or exhibiting, nymphomania. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nymphomaniacal
Literary usage of Nymphomaniacal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Psychological Medicine by William Alexander Hammond (1872)
"Catharine R., aged fifty-three years, an epileptic, subject to violent nymphomaniacal
attacks. On September 10, 1870, after a convulsion which lasted for ..."
2. A Treatise on Insanity in Its Medical Relations by William Alexander Hammond (1883)
"Abnormal, erotic, or nymphomaniacal tendencies are sometimes excited by the
cessation of the menstrual flow, and constitute some of the most distressing ..."
3. The Dublin Journal of Medical Science (1884)
"The first manifested decidedly nymphomaniacal tendencies at the time of menstruation,
accompanied with auditory hallucinations and illusions of taste and ..."
4. A Text-book of Mental Diseases: With Special Reference to the Pathological by William Bevan Lewis (1899)
"Contrasted with the case of S. II. we may take that of AA, in which maniacal
perversions of a prominent nymphomaniacal nature prevail. AA, aged forty-seven, ..."
5. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1886)
"... October, 1882), oophorectomy is of decided value in certain chronic cases with
nymphomaniacal symptoms as an aid to moral treatment. ..."
6. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1886)
"... October, 1882), oophorectomy is of decided value in certain chronic cases with
nymphomaniacal symptoms as an aid to moral treatment. ..."
7. Mental pathology and therapeutics by Wilhelm Griesinger (1882)
"... occasionally by more formal delirium, attempts at suicide, nymphomaniacal
excitement, occasionally by delirium of a religious or demoniacal character; ..."
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