hysteromania

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

hystero- +‎ -mania

Noun[edit]

hysteromania (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) nymphomania
  2. (archaic) A condition involving both hysteria and mania.
    • 1866, The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, page 445:
      But in certain respects it was something more, and in others something less than hysteromania; or either hysteria or mania; or any combination thereof.

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