satyriasis

English

WOTD – 15 February 2006

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin satyriasis, from Ancient Greek σατυρίασις (saturíasis).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌsatɪˈrʌɪəsɪs/

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Noun

satyriasis (usually uncountable, plural satyriases)

1. Excessive sexual desire, found in a man.

   Synonyms: satyrism, satyromania

   Hypernym: hypersexuality

   Coordinate term: nymphomania

   • 1920, B. G. Jefferis, J. L. Nichols, “Sexual Proprieties and Improprieties”, in Searchlights on Health‎^[1]:

     The indulgence of illicit pleasures, says Dr. S. Pancoast, sooner or later is sure to entail the most loathsome diseases on their votaries. Among these diseases are […] Satyriasis (a species of sexual madness, or a sexual diabolism, causing men to commit rape and other beastly acts and outrages, not only on women and children, but men and animals, as sodomy, pederasty, etc.), […]

   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 215:

     An early physician, a certain Baldassar Timoeus [...] adds that a preparation of nitre, dissolved in aqua nymphae, cured a chronic case of satyriasis.

   • 1998, The Big Lebowski (motion picture), spoken by Maude Lebowski (Julianne Moore):

     It's a male myth about feminists that we hate sex. It can be a natural, zesty enterprise. But unfortunately there are some people—it is called satyriasis in men, nymphomania in women—who engage in it compulsively and without joy.

2. The quality of excessive sexual passion in a male.

Derived terms

• satyriasic

Related terms

• satyriasist
• satyriatic
• satyr

Translations

uncontrollable sexual desire

• Bulgarian: неконтролируемо полово влечение n (nekontroliruemo polovo vlečenie)
• Finnish: satyriaasi
• French: satyriasis (fr), satyrisme (fr) m, satyriasisme (fr) m
• Greek: σατυρίαση (el) f (satyríasi)

  Ancient Greek: σατυρίασις f (saturíasis)

• Portuguese: satiríase (pt)
• Spanish: satiriasis (es) f
• Swedish: satyriasis (sv) c

See also

• horniness
• sexual addiction

Further reading

• “satyriasis”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• hypersexuality on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Swedish

Noun

satyriasis c (indeclinable)

1. satyriasis

See also

• hypersexualitet
• nymfomani
• översexuell

References

• “satyriasis”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “satyriasis”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• Fula Ordboken