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Nymphomania is an old, rather doctor-sounding name for a woman wanting sex very often, often with many different men. It comes from Latin nympha (a nymph, a young woman in Greek stories) plus mania (a wild, hard-to-stop wanting). You can also see it as nympho- + mania. Doctors once wrote it down as an illness. Many people now think that was unfair: a woman’s strong desire was called a disease, while a man’s was talked about in a softer way. You will still hear nymphomania in films, jokes, and insults, but serious doctors almost never use it as a real diagnosis now. When people say it loosely, they often only mean ‘she wants sex a lot,’ which is not by itself a sickness, and is not a fact you can know from gossip.
慕男狂(舊時醫學標籤,現在多半是貶義或玩笑,醫生已很少這樣寫)
組成From New Latin, from Latin nympha + mania. By the pieces you can see: nympho- + mania.
同家族的字
- nymphomaniacthe person (or adjective) built from this noun
- maniathe second half: a very strong, hard-to-stop wanting
- nymphsame first root; a nymph is a young woman or nature spirit in Greek stories
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
nymphomanianoun/nɪmfəˈmeɪnɪə/
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Excess of sexual behaviour or desire in women.
- Camphor, however, has been used to counteract the conditions arising from nymphomania.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。