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erotomania
[ih-roh-tuh-mey-nee-uh, -meyn-yuh, ih-rot-uh-]
noun
abnormally strong or persistent sexual desire.
erotomania
/ ɪ˰łÉ³ŁÉŹĖ³¾±šÉŖ²ŌÉŖÉ /
noun
abnormally strong sexual desire
a condition in which a person is obsessed with another person and groundlessly believes that person to be in love with him or her
Other 51³Ō¹Ļ Forms
- erotomaniac noun
- erotomanic adjective
- ±šĖ°ł“dzٓĒ˳¾²¹²Ō¾±²¹³¦ noun
51³Ō¹Ļ History and Origins
Origin of erotomania1
Example Sentences
But David is not about to be placated with look-at-me lingerie; erotomania in full swing, heās soon lurking in Ellieās bedroom and sniffing her unmentionables.
Hill also says that Biden failed to restrain Republicans who smeared Hill's reputation, from Sen. John Danforth of Missouri recruiting a forensic psychologist to accuse Hill of "erotomania" to Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, who brandished a copy of "The Exorcist" throughout the Hill hearings.
He didnāt apologize for allowing Republicans on the committee to badger her with accusations that she suffered from āerotomania,ā a condition characterized by delusions that a higher-ranking person has the hots for them.
She said she also faults Mr. Biden for letting the hearings get out of control ā āThe process went completely off trackā ā and for failing to restrain Republicans like former Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah, who brandished a copy of āThe Exorcistā during the hearings, and former Senator John C. Danforth of Missouri, who while advising Judge Thomas enlisted the help of a forensic psychiatrist who suggested Ms. Hill suffered from āerotomania.ā
With the word āannihilationā she conjured the spectre of Anita Hill, who, in her testimony against Clarence Thomas, in 1991, was basically berated over an exhausting two-day period, and diagnosed, by the senators interrogating her, with āerotomaniaā and a case of man-eating professionalism.
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