nympholepsy
/ˈnɪmfəˌlɛpsi/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A frenzied state of (usually erotic) emotion, especially concerning something or someone unattainable.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "If young persons of both sexes were brought together in the honest practical relations of organized labor, we should see no more of these fond nympholepsies"
- "The science of nympholepsy is a precise science. Actual contact would do it in one second flat. An interspace of a millimeter would do it in ten."
Etymology
From nympho- + -lepsy, after Ancient Greek νυμφόληπτος (numphólēptos, “frenzied by the nymphs”, adjective).