hypersexuality

noun

as in nymphomania

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Recent Examples of hypersexuality All that thinking has only strengthened my conviction that learning to love your face without objectification is a powerful way to counteract the damaging and distressing messages from a beauty culture that prizes youthfulness and hypersexuality. — Valerie Monroe, Allure, 10 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hypersexuality
  1. nymphomania
  2. erotomania
  3. lechery
Noun
  • The old include the obvious (Louis) and less obvious (a one-of-a-kind musical origin story), but the new arrives in the form of the mysterious Gabriella (Jennifer Ehle), Lestat’s undead mother whose thirst for blood ranks a distant second to her nymphomania.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 7 June 2026
Definition of nymphomania
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  • This eccentric delusion is clinically recognized as erotomania.
    — Eric Taipale, Discover Magazine, 14 Oct. 2022
Definition of erotomania
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  • Mingus agreed to join him for moral support, but when Albee, whether through nonchalance or lechery, answered the door wearing nothing but a beltless bathrobe, Mingus balked and hightailed it out of there.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Vandalism and lechery are among the milder affronts that occur on Winifred’s watch, and her narration, though sombre, sparkles.
    — The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
Definition of lechery

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“Hypersexuality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hypersexuality. Accessed 5 Oct. 2026.

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