hypersexuality

English

Etymology

From hyper- +‎ sexuality.

Noun

hypersexuality (usually uncountable, plural hypersexualities)

  1. Excessive desire for sexual activity, especially when considered high enough to be clinically significant.
    Antonyms: asexuality, graysexuality, hyposexuality, sexual anorexia
    • 1983 August 13, Richard Royal, “AIDS and Promiscuity”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 5, page 6:
      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.
    • 2010, Encyclopedia of Behavioral Neuroscience, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 96:
      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, […]

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