noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   Excess of sexual behaviour or desire in women. countable, uncountable

   "Camphor, however, has been used to counteract the conditions arising from nymphomania."

2. 2
   abnormally intense sexual desire in women wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

andromaniaanimalityaphrodisiabawdinessbiological urgebodily appetite

Example

More examples

"Camphor, however, has been used to counteract the conditions arising from nymphomania."

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin, from Latin nympha + -mania. By surface analysis, nympho- + mania.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.