Path. [f. as prec. + Gr. μανία madness.] a. Melancholy or madness arising from passionate love; b. (see quot. 1884).
1874. Van Buren, Dis. Genit. Org., 464. Erotomania is a species of insanity.
1877. Woodman & Tidy, Forensic Med., 726. Extreme sexual passion is called erotomania in both sexes.
1884. Syd. Soc. Lex., Erotomania. By some authors the term is restricted to those cases in which the imagination alone is affected; by others the grosser forms nymphomania and satyriasis are included.
