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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Excessive, often uncontrollable sexual desire in and behavior by a man.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A diseased and unrestrainable venereal appetite in men, corresponding to nymphomania in women.
  2. n. In pathology, lepra.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Uncontrollable sexual desire, found in a man (contrast to nymphomania)
  2. n. The quality of excessive sexual passion in a male

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Immoderate venereal appetite in the male.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. abnormally intense sexual desire in men

Etymologies

  1. Late Latin satyriasis, from Ancient Greek σατυρίασις. (Wiktionary)
  2. Late Latin satyriāsis, from Greek saturiāsis, from saturos, satyr. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “There is a form of excessive libido in men called satyriasis, which reaches such a degree that the men are often not able to control their desires, and they will satisfy their passion even if they know that the result is sure to be a venereal infection or several years in prison.”

    Woman Her Sex and Love Life

  • “In "satyriasis," with its connotation of pathology, he has found his true tone, which he extends in denouncing among homosexuals "a dreary sexual conformism ... rigidly defined and routinized sex moves in the theatrical costume of police or ranch wear [sic].”

    An Exchange on AIDS

  • “I also liked this piece in the LA Times -- "DSK and France's code of silence" -- about how there must be a happy medium between "the French embrace of satyriasis among political leaders and Americans' puritanical intolerance of sexual impropriety...”

    The Huffington Post: Beth Arnold: Letter From Paris: The Face of Dominique Strauss-Kahn

  • “A tsunami of books and articles and documentaries now appeared on the subject of the president's satyriasis.”

    The Wall Street Journal: What Were They Thinking?

  • “Terminology "Nymphomania" and "satyriasis" are not listed as disorders in the DSM-IV, though they remain a part of ICD-10, each listed as a subtype of "Hypersexuality.”

    Sexual Addiction

  • “In particular, it is not related to hypersexuality, sometimes known as nymphomania or satyriasis.”

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  • “Hieronymus Mercurialis, in his chapter of melancholy, cites it for an especial cause of this malady, [1482] priapismus, satyriasis, &c. Haliabbas, 5.”

    Anatomy of Melancholy

  • “There the sexual excitement increased to a veritable satyriasis, which lasted until he died.”

    06 « November « 2007 « Jahsonic

  • “I had my satyriasis strap-on, my P.A.G.A.N.-brand goat leggings, and "Free Kevin Federline" t-shirt all ready to go, too.”

    Purity Ball. I Said BALL. Singular. Geesh.

  • ““Everyone knows that town gentlemen often suffer from satyriasis.””

    Simon & Schuster: Chasing a Rogue

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