satyriasis
noun/ˌsatɪˈrʌɪəsɪs/
Etymology Borrowed from Late Latin satyriasis, from Ancient Greek σατυρίασις (saturíasis).
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Usually Excessive sexual desire, found in a man.
- The indulgence of illicit pleasures, says Dr. S. Pancoast, sooner or later is sure to entail the most loathsome diseases on their votaries. Among these diseases are […] Satyriasis (a species of sexual madness, or a sexual diabolism, causing men to commit rape and other beastly acts and outrages, not only on women and children, but men and animals, as sodomy, pederasty, etc.), […]1920, B. G. Jefferis, J. L. Nichols, “Sexual Proprieties and Improprieties”, in Searchlights on Health:
- An early physician, a certain Baldassar Timoeus [...] adds that a preparation of nitre, dissolved in aqua nymphae, cured a chronic case of satyriasis.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 215:
1 more example
- It's a male myth about feminists that we hate sex. It can be a natural, zesty enterprise. But unfortunately there are some people—it is called satyriasis in men, nymphomania in women—who engage in it compulsively and without joy.1998, The Big Lebowski (motion picture), spoken by Maude Lebowski (Julianne Moore):
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Usually The quality of excessive sexual passion in a male.
- Derived terms
- satyriasic
- Related terms
- satyriasist, satyriatic, satyr, horniness, sexual addiction