2. Adjective. Of or relating to hypersexuality ¹
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Definition of Hypersexual
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hypersexual
Literary usage of Hypersexual
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Individual Delinquent: A Text-book of Diagnosis and Prognosis for All by William Healy (1915)
"Inheritance of hypersexual Tendencies. § 145. Inheritance of Physical Traits.
§ 146. Familial Biological Defect. §141. Studies of Heredity Need Critical ..."
2. Mental Conflicts and Misconduct by William Healy (1917)
"He was a journalist of ability who showed hypersexual tendencies, and on account
of this and some alleged dishonesty, the mother left him. ..."
3. The Kingdom of Evils: Psychiatric Social Work Presented in One Hundred Case by Elmer Ernest Southard, Mary Cromwell Jarrett (1922)
"One cannot avoid the assumption that it would take more than the ordinary amount
of will-power to overcome the sexual desires of such a hypersexual ..."
4. Prosecutorial Response to Heavy Drug Caseloads: Comprehensive Problem by Kerry M. Healey (1994)
"... impulsive, hypersexual, compulsive, irritable, and hyperactive. Their moods
vacillate dramatically, leading at times to violence and homicide. ..."
5. An Introduction to Child Psychology by Charles Wilkin Waddell (1918)
"Other hereditary physical defects, especially neuropathic conditions, results of
serious alcoholism of parents, hypersexual tendencies, ..."
6. The Sex Offender: Corrections, Treatment and Legal Practiceby Barbara K Schwartz, Henry R. Cellini by Barbara K Schwartz, Henry R. Cellini (1995)
"Investigation of trauma-based, cognitive behavioral, systematic and addiction
approaches for treatment of hypersexual pair-bonding disorder. ..."
7. Neurosyphilis by Elmer Ernest Southard, Harry Caesar Solomon (1917)
"As hypersexual desire is not an infrequent early symptom and as judgment is early
disturbed, loose morals may ruin the patient's reputation. ..."
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