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Definition of Nymphomaniacs
1. nymphomaniac [n] - See also: nymphomaniac
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nymphomaniacs
Literary usage of Nymphomaniacs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Psychopathia Sexualis, with Especial Reference to the Antipathic Sexual by Richard Krafft-Ebing (1922)
"nymphomaniacs endowed with the world's riches purchase lovers. In many instances
they resort to prostitution. The conditions of Satyriasis in men are ..."
2. A Practical Treatise on Disorders of the Sexual Function in the Male and Female by Max Hühner (1916)
"As with satyriasis, while many of the nymphomaniacs are given to ... Another fact
worthy of mention is that so many nymphomaniacs end up in insane asylums. ..."
3. Psychopathia Sexualis: With Especial Reference to the Antipathic Sexual by Richard Krafft-Ebing (1906)
"nymphomaniacs endowed with the world's riches purchase lovers. In many instances
they resort to prostitution. The conditions of Satyriasis in men are ..."
4. The Sexual Question: A Scientific, Psychological, Hygenic and Sociological Study by Auguste Forel (1908)
"nymphomaniacs often have polyandrous instincts, and they then become more insatiable
than men. ... It would seem quite natural for nymphomaniacs to marry ..."
5. Medicolegal Aspects of Moral Offenses by Léon Henri Thoinot, Arthur Wisswald Weysse (1911)
"In my opinion there is no more resemblance between the various nymphomaniacs than
there is between degenerate inverts and vicious inverts, ..."
6. 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)
"10, 1886,) says that in nymphomaniacs "there are generally found a coarse skin,
large lips, black eyes, "black hair, dark complexion, and a more or less ..."
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