1. relating to or characteristic of excessive sexual desire, especially in women
Usage: clinical/medical term; often considered offensive or outdated in modern usage

Examples

• The historical medical literature contained nymphomaniacal descriptions that modern psychiatry has largely abandoned.
• Nineteenth-century physicians sometimes applied the term nymphomaniacal to women whose behavior they deemed socially inappropriate.
• Modern psychology rejects nymphomaniacal as a diagnostic category in favor of more neutral terminology.