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单词 erotomania
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Definition of erotomania in English:

erotomania

noun ɪˌrɒtə(ʊ)ˈmeɪnɪə
mass noun
  • 1Excessive sexual desire.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I mean, I don't have to worry about the kinds of tricky situations that erotomania would lead me into, and I don't have to fear the damage that kleptomania or pyromania might cause me to inflict.
    • The creation of art could either serve as a ‘cure’ for erotomania or lead to madness or suicide.
    • Changes in sexual behavior, though uncommon, have been seen in patients with epilepsy, including hypersexuality, pansexuality, erotomania, sexual paranoia, exhibitionism, and fetishism.
    • Thus, it's easier to sort for little things like erotomania, or a pathological inability to communicate.
    • These herbs may not offer a direct or long lasting solution, but rather they may help in cases of transient "erotomania".
    1. 1.1Psychiatry A delusion in which a person (typically a woman) believes that another person (typically of higher social status) is in love with them.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Then, overwhelmed with erotomania, she showers him with emails, attaching naked pictures of herself.’
      • In the run-up to her death psychiatrists deemed she suffered from a condition known as erotomania in which people believe others to be in love with them.
      • Houran's studies indicate that the most deeply obsessed also show signs of erotomania, the delusion of having a love affair with an unattainable or uninterested person.
      • A woman masquerades as a doctor, but is stalking a male staff member as part of a delusion of erotomania.
      • The 43-year-old cleaner, who suffers from a condition known as De Cleranbault's Syndrome - also known as erotomania - believed Father Jonathan Hart was in love with her.

Derivatives

  • erotomaniac

  • nounɪˌrɒtə(ʊ)ˈmeɪnɪak
    • To prepare, Tautou read a medical study of erotomaniacs: people who love excessively.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Because they had a strategy with a name that appealed to erotomaniacs everywhere: Safe Sex.
      • An erotomaniac, Duperret spends most of the play trying to get his hands on Charlotte, a narcoleptic, who sleepily fends off his ham-handing (when she's not unconscious).
      • Davenport is a cameo, a supporting erotomaniac.

Rhymes

Albania, balletomania, bibliomania, crania, dipsomania, egomania, kleptomania, Lithuania, Lusitania, mania, Mauritania, megalomania, miscellanea, monomania, nymphomania, Pennsylvania, Pomerania, pyromania, Rainier, Romania, Ruritania, Tasmania, Transylvania, Urania
 
 

Definition of erotomania in US English:

erotomania

noun
  • 1Excessive sexual desire.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Thus, it's easier to sort for little things like erotomania, or a pathological inability to communicate.
    • I mean, I don't have to worry about the kinds of tricky situations that erotomania would lead me into, and I don't have to fear the damage that kleptomania or pyromania might cause me to inflict.
    • Changes in sexual behavior, though uncommon, have been seen in patients with epilepsy, including hypersexuality, pansexuality, erotomania, sexual paranoia, exhibitionism, and fetishism.
    • These herbs may not offer a direct or long lasting solution, but rather they may help in cases of transient "erotomania".
    • The creation of art could either serve as a ‘cure’ for erotomania or lead to madness or suicide.
    1. 1.1Psychiatry A delusion in which a person (typically a woman) believes that another person (typically of higher social status) is in love with them.
      Also called de Clerambault's syndrome
      Example sentencesExamples
      • A woman masquerades as a doctor, but is stalking a male staff member as part of a delusion of erotomania.
      • Houran's studies indicate that the most deeply obsessed also show signs of erotomania, the delusion of having a love affair with an unattainable or uninterested person.
      • Then, overwhelmed with erotomania, she showers him with emails, attaching naked pictures of herself.’
      • In the run-up to her death psychiatrists deemed she suffered from a condition known as erotomania in which people believe others to be in love with them.
      • The 43-year-old cleaner, who suffers from a condition known as De Cleranbault's Syndrome - also known as erotomania - believed Father Jonathan Hart was in love with her.
 
 
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