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nympholepsy|ˈnɪmfəlɛpsɪ|
[f. next, after epilepsy.]
A state of rapture supposed to be inspired in men by nymphs; hence, an ecstasy or frenzy of emotion, esp. that inspired by something unattainable.
1775R. Chandler Trav. Greece (1825) II. 191 Nympholepsy is characterised as a phrensy, which arose from having beheld them [the nymphs]. 1818Byron Ch. Har. iv. cxv, A young Aurora of the air, The nympholepsy of some fond despair. 1831Lytton Godolphin xx, The most common disease to genius is nympholepsy—the saddening for a spirit that the world knows not. 1839De Quincey Recoll. Lakes Wks. 1862 II. 32 He languished with a sort of despairing nympholepsy after intellectual pleasures. 1888Times 21 Aug. 8/4, I have not been reduced to a state of nympholepsy by any of the beauty that I have been privileged to behold. 1955V. Nabokov Lolita (1958) i. 174 The science of nympholepsy is a precise science. Actual contact would do it in one second flat. An interspace of a millimeter would do it in ten. 1974Times Lit. Suppl. 8 Feb. 122/3 His congenital nympholepsy for slender girls with thin arms.
So ‖ nymphoˈlepsia.
1885F. B. Van Voorst Without a Compass 13 The poor dreamer hurried on by the nympholepsia of the ideal. |