Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

nympholept

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: nymp-holept
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A person in a state of nympholepsy.

Example Sentences

"Dark faery, / Modern, unissued, instinctive America, / Your nascent faery people / Lurking among the deeps of your industrial thicket, / Allure me till I am beside myself, / A nympholept."
""I don't mind young nympholepts, but I draw the line at a paint-raddled old bitch of - " He had not noticed Rita, hidden in the big leather chair with its back to him, but as she moved to look round at him, he arrested his whisky at the moment of tossing it off to say "Oh, sorry, Grimsby, I didn't know you had a visitor.""

Etymology

From Ancient Greek νυμφόληπτος (numphólēptos, “caught by nymphs, frenzied”), from νύμφη (númphē) + λαμβάνω (lambánō, “I take”).

Inflected Forms

nympholepts (plural)

Questions

What does nympholept mean?: A person in a state of nympholepsy.
Where does nympholept come from?: From Ancient Greek νυμφόληπτος (numphólēptos, “caught by nymphs, frenzied”), from νύμφη (númphē) + λαμβάνω (lambánō, “I take”).

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