nympholepsy
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prettygoodwordnympholepsy (NIM-fuh-lep-see) - n., a frenzy of emotion, as for something unattainable.
Sometimes, thanks to Nabokov, specifically associated with a Lolita complex, but it's a general object of desire. Coined in 1774 from nympholept using the model of epilepsy; nympholept in turn is from Greek nympholēptos, frenzy, literally caught by nymphs (nymphē + lambanein, to seize). La!
---L.
Sometimes, thanks to Nabokov, specifically associated with a Lolita complex, but it's a general object of desire. Coined in 1774 from nympholept using the model of epilepsy; nympholept in turn is from Greek nympholēptos, frenzy, literally caught by nymphs (nymphē + lambanein, to seize). La!
---L.
