nymphomania
Compulsive sexual craving
Nymphomania is excessive or uncontrollable sexual desire in a woman.
The term belongs to outdated psychiatric vocabulary, where it pathologized female sexuality that exceeded social norms.
A man with similar appetites was called a satyr.
Modern clinical language prefers hypersexuality, applied regardless of gender.
The word persists in casual or humorous use: She joked about her nymphomania after her third date that week.
Absence of organization
- diagnosisIdentification of illness
- conditionState or stipulation
- syndromeLinked symptoms forming pattern
- hypersexualityCompulsive erotic excess
dysfunction · psychiatric · clinical · DSM · treatment · therapy · symptom · behavioral
Innate erotic drive
- promiscuityFrequent casual sexual encounters
- arousalStirring to heightened state
- lustfulnessIntense carnal desire
- eroticismSexual desire's aesthetic quality
sensuality · carnality · lechery · desire · passion · sexuality · concupiscence · lasciviousness
Strong inner drive
- cravingPowerful urge to have
- obsessionPersistent, intrusive preoccupation
- fixationPersistent mental attachment
- impulseSudden urge to act
preoccupation · addiction · compulsivity · drive · longing · yearning · uncontrollable · insatiable
Painful awareness of failure
- tabooCultural or social prohibition
- judgmentReasoned decision-making capacity
- misconceptionErroneous belief or understanding
- stereotypeFixed oversimplified notion
double-standard · slut-shaming · promiscuous · label · disgrace · scandal · ostracism · moralism
disorder
Absence of organization
- diagnosisIdentification of illness
- conditionState or stipulation
- syndromeLinked symptoms forming pattern
hypersexuality · dysfunction · psychiatric · clinical · DSM · treatment · therapy · symptom · behavioral · paraphilia
libido
Innate erotic drive
- promiscuityFrequent casual sexual encounters
- arousalStirring to heightened state
- lustfulnessIntense carnal desire
eroticism · sensuality · carnality · lechery · desire · passion · sexuality · concupiscence · lasciviousness · licentiousness
urge
Strong inner drive
- cravingPowerful urge to have
- obsessionPersistent, intrusive preoccupation
- fixationPersistent mental attachment
impulse · preoccupation · addiction · compulsivity · drive · longing · yearning · uncontrollable · insatiable · overwhelming
shame
Painful awareness of failure
- tabooCultural or social prohibition
- judgmentReasoned decision-making capacity
- misconceptionErroneous belief or understanding
stereotype · double-standard · slut-shaming · promiscuous · label · disgrace · scandal · ostracism · moralism · prudery
- lustlust, lustfulness, carnality, concupiscence, libido
- Maniasbibliomania, dipsomania, egomania, erotomania, megalomania
- Old Ailmentsconsumption, dropsy, ague, apoplexy, phthisis
- sexual compulsivitysex addiction, hypersexuality, porn addiction, relapse, twelve-step programs
- sexual disorderssexual dysfunction, erectile dysfunction, premature ejaculation, vaginismus, low libido
- extreme behaviorsobsession, compulsion, fanaticism, extremism, frenzy
nymphomaniacelibacy
Abstaining from intimate relations
chastity · abstinence · sexual restraint · continence · virginity