nympholepsy

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nympholepsy (plural nympholepsies)

A frenzied state of (usually erotic) emotion, especially concerning something or someone unattainable.
- 1852, Mary Edgewood Lazarus, Love Vs. Marriage: Part 1, page 292
  
  If young persons of both sexes were brought together in the honest practical relations of organized labor, we should see no more of these fond nympholepsies