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Webster 1913 Edition

nymphomania

nymˊpho-ma′ni-a

(nĭmˊfō̍-mā′nĭ-ȧ)

,

Noun.

[Gr.

νύμφη

a bride +

μανία

madness.]

(Med.)

An uncontrollable excessive sexual desire in women, constituting a true disease.