Erotomania definitions and example sentences on Wordnik

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And though a little sentimentality may be a very good thing, chronic sentimentality is a horror, more dangerous, because more possible, than the erotomania which we all condemn when we are not thoughtlessly glorifying it as the ideal married state THE GOSPEL OF LAODICEA Let us try to get at the root error of these false domestic doctrines.

—Getting Married

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noun Excessive sexual desire.
noun Psychiatry A delusional, romantic preoccupation with a stranger, often a public figure.

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The psychiatrist had explained to the jury about erotomania, and the graveness of the threat to Anne for some years to come. — CourtingTrouble
She was ultimately brought to the asylum with paroxysmal attacks of exaltation and erotomania (without self-abuse apparently) and corresponding periods of depression and she died with progressive dementia. — Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion
And though a little sentimentality may be a very good thing, chronic sentimentality is a horror, more dangerous, because more possible, than the erotomania which we all condemn when we are not thoughtlessly glorifying it as the ideal married state THE GOSPEL OF LAODICEA Let us try to get at the root error of these false domestic doctrines. — Getting Married
Erosblog, erotica, eroticism, erotomania, is there really — ErosBlog: The Sex Blog
The most eminent authority on mental pathology, Professor Krafft-Ebing, says, concerning erotomania: — Primitive Love and Love-Stories