Satyriasis

Quick meaning: Satyriasis is a noun meaning Excessive sexual desire, found in a man.

Meaning

Excessive sexual desire, found in a man.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

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

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.

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.), […]

Word Forms

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Synonyms for satyriasis

Depending on context, synonyms include satyrism, satyromania.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include satyromania, gynaecomania, hyperphilia, nymphomania, aphrodisiomania, ecdysiasm.

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