hypersexuality
Psychiatric term for abnormally increased or excessive sexual desire and behavior.
Hypersexuality refers to a psychiatric condition in which sexual desire becomes abnormally heightened.
erotomania; de Clérambault's syndrome
Psychiatric term for a delusional disorder in which the patient believes that another person, often of higher social status, is in love with them. Compare with エロトマニア.
See also: エロトマニア
In erotomania, a type of hypersexuality, the patient develops a delusion that the other person has romantic feelings for them.
Compound of 色情 (sexual desire) + 症 (condition, syndrome). The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but the term follows standard medical naming patterns.