hypersexuality

English

Etymology

hyper- +‎ sexuality

Noun

hypersexuality (usually uncountable, plural hypersexualities)

1. The desire for sexual activity at levels high enough to be considered clinically significant.

   Antonym: hyposexuality

   • 2010, Encyclopedia of Behavioral Neuroscience, Elsevier (→ISBN), page 96:

     For example, there are many reports of hypersexuality following traumatic brain injury to frontal regions. Although disinhibition is one common consequence of frontal lesions, not all frontal lesions will result in hypersexuality, […]

Translations

extreme libido

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 性慾亢進／性欲亢进, 性欲亢进 (xìngyù kàngjìn)

• Estonian: hüperseksuaalsus
• Finnish: hyperseksuaalisuus
• French: hypersexualité (fr) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: Hypersexualität f
• Italian: ipersessualità (it) f
• Japanese: 異常性欲 (いじょうせいよく, ijō-seiyoku)
• Russian: гиперсексуа́льность (ru) f (gipersɛksuálʹnostʹ)
• Spanish: hipersexualidad f
• Vietnamese: chứng cuồng dâm

Further reading

• hypersexuality on Wikipedia.Wikipedia