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Nymphomania

Definition: Nymphomania

Nymphomania

Noun

1. Abnormally intense sexual desire in women.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "nymphomania" was first used: 1775. (references)

Etymology: Nymphomania \Nym`pho*ma"ni*a\, noun. [Greek expression bride madness.]. (Websters 1913)


Crosswords: Nymphomania

English words defined with "nymphomania": Nymphomany. (references)

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Modern Usage: Nymphomania

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Nymphomania (1971)

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Commercial Usage: Nymphomania

DomainTitle

Books

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Usage Frequency: Nymphomania

"Nymphomania" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Nymphomania" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%4175,879

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Nymphomania

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  nymphomania

176

  free nymphomania

13

  nymphomania xxx

10

  nymphomania symptom

5

  female nymphomania

5

  nymphomania treatment

2

  nymphomania fantasy

2
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Modern Translations: Nymphomania

Language Translations for "nymphomania"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

nimfomani. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏الغلمة النسوية شبق النساء مرض. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

нимфомания. (various references)

   

Czech

  

nymfomanie. (various references)

   

Danish

  

nymfomani (clitoromania), metromani, lagnosis, lagnesis, hysteromani, andromani. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

nymphomania (clitoromania), nymfomanie (clitoromania), metromania (clitoromania), manziekte (clitoromania), furor uterinus (clitoromania), erotomanie, erotomania (clitoromania), clitoromania (clitoromania). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

میل شدیدزن بجماع , حشری بودن زن . (various references)

   

French

  

nymphomanie. (various references)

   

German

  

Nymphomanie, Mannstollheit. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

νυμφομανία,σατυρομανία,ανδρομανία (clitoromania), νυμφομανία. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

nimfománia. (various references)

   

Italian

  

ninfomania. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

ニンヒドリン反応 (ninhydrin reaction, nymph). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ニンフォマニア . (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ymphomanianay

   

Portuguese

  

ninfomania (clitoromania). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

нимфомания. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

nimfomanija. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

ninfomanía (clitoromania). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

nymfomani. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

seks düşkünlüğü (lust, voluptuousness), aşırı seks arzusu. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

німфоманія. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Nymphomania

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Greek700 BCE-300 CE

lambanein, nymphe. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Nymphomania

Derivations

Words beginning with "nymphomania": nymphomaniac, nymphomaniacal, nymphomaniacs, nymphomanias. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Nymphomania" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: nimphomania, nymphomane, nymphomanic, nyphomania. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Nymphomania"

Words rhyming with "nymphomania" (pronounced 'Nym`pho*ma"ni*a'): Acrania, Adansonia, AEgicrania, Ammonia, Anglomania, Anthomania, Arachnida, Arnica, Bibliomania, Bignonia, Britannia, Caledonia, Campania, Catamenia, Cavicornia, Chelonia, Cleptomania, Dalmania, Daphnia, Darlingtonia, Gallomania, gardenia, hemicrania, hernia, Houstonia, insignia, insomnia, kleptomania, Lamellicornia, Lawsonia, Longicornia, Mahonia, mania, Marsdenia, megalomania, Metromania, monomania, Musicomania, Musomania, Naenia, Nenia, Neomenia, OEnomania, Oinomania, Oxyammonia, Paulownia, Petunia, Phyllomania, Planipennia, Pleuropneumonia. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Nymphomania

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-h-i-m-m-n-n-o-p-y"

-2 letters: hypomania.

-4 letters: ammonia, aphonia, mahonia.

-5 letters: ammino, amnion, anonym, anopia, hominy, mayhap, minyan, myopia, nomina, nympha, nympho, paynim, pinyon.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-h-i-m-m-n-n-o-p-y"
 

+1 letter: nymphomaniac, nymphomanias.

 

+2 letters: nymphomaniacs.

 

+3 letters: nymphomaniacal.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Nymphomania


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4E 79 6D 70 68 6F 6D 61 6E 69 61

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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Bibliographic Items: "nymphomania"


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Amazon.com BOOKS: Search for: "nymphomania"

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