nympholept

Wouldn't "nympholept" be a good word to see more of around the place, by the way?

languagehat.com: LIMERENT. 2005

It has no aim of imitating springtime noises, but seeks to stimulate by suggestion the hearer's creative imagination, and provoke by a musical telepathy the emotions that swayed the nympholept composer.

Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions Rupert Hughes 1914

I said that any remark of yours was to be received by me in all reverence; and truth is a part of reverence, so I shall end by telling you the truth, that I think you quite wrong in your objection to 'nympholept.'

The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Browning, Elizabeth B 1898

Thanks to it -- all thanks to it -- I did not become a nympholept.

Lore of Proserpine Maurice Hewlett 1892

It is enough to say that Hamilton represents himself as by no means an ardent nympholept, or even as flattered by demi-goddess-like advances, which are of the most obliging description; and that the lady has not only to make fuller and fuller revelations of her beauty, but at last to exert her supernatural power to some extent in order to carry the recreant into her "cool grot," not, indeed, under water, but invisibly situated on land.

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889