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A woman with abnormal sexual desires
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nymphomaniac
Word definitions for nymphomaniac in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. (used of women) affected with excessive sexual desire [syn: nymphomaniacal ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
nymphomaniac \nym`pho*ma"ni*ac\ (n[i^]m`f[-o]*m[=a]"n[i^]*[a^]k), n. A woman afflicted with nymphomania.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1861 (adj.), 1867 (n.), from nymphomania .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Did her frailness, her vulnerability on that first meeting make her appear a nymphomaniac ? ▪ Those few women who shocked public feeling with a display of sexual desire were branded either as prostitutes, nymphomaniacs or lunatics. ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (context of a woman English) Having excessive sexual desire. alt. A woman with excessive sexual desire. n. A woman with excessive sexual desire.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Nymphomaniac (stylized onscreen and in advertising as NYMPHMANIAC ) is a 2013 two-part drama art film written and directed by Lars von Trier . The film stars Charlotte Gainsbourg , Stellan Skarsgård , Stacy Martin , Shia LaBeouf , Christian Slater , Jamie ...
Usage examples of nymphomaniac.
Now her finery, her paste jewels and her enormous super-imposition of black hair hung up in the green room and she wore a drab rag of coarse hemp for the final scene of her desperate decline, when, outrageous nymphomaniac, she practised extraordinary necrophilies on the bloated corpses the sea tossed contemptuously at her feet for her dry rapacity had become entirely mechanical and still she repeated her former actions though she herself was utterly other.
Gusterson sold his insanity novel and started a new one about a mad medic with a hiccupy hysterical chuckle, who gimmicked Moodmasters to turn mental patients into nymphomaniacs, mass murderers and compulsive saints.
If we can prove Miss Bledsoe to be an alcoholic, criminal, narcotics addict, Communist, lesbian, or nymphomaniac, we can violate her contract and get her blackballed from the film industry on that basis.
For a moment I thought of those fabled khans and their nymphomaniacs who are always crashing into trees somewhere between Paris and Nice.
Virile I am, yes, but would I be able to entertain one of history’s most celebrated nymphomaniacs from darkness to dawn?
His fantasies were about equally divided between the normal-meeting a well-stacked nymphomaniac whose father owned a liquor store-and meeting a nice, respectable girl and getting married.
His fantasies were about equally divided between the normal—meeting a well-stacked nymphomaniac whose father owned a liquor store—and meeting a nice, respectable girl and getting married.