Hypersexuality

Quick meaning: Hypersexuality is a noun meaning Excessive desire for sexual activity, especially when considered high enough to be clinically significant.

Meaning

Excessive desire for sexual activity, especially when considered high enough to be clinically significant.

Example Sentences

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, […]

Is promiscuity a cover for an underlying despair? Perhaps my own hypersexuality has served a narcissism I dare not face: a surface vanity (which must constantly be reinforced) concealing an inner doubt about my own importance as a human being.

Word Forms

• hypersexualities

Antonyms for hypersexuality

Common opposites include hyposexuality.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hypersexualization, oversexedness, eroticism, sexcess, oversexualization, erotomania.

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