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• n  a woman with abnormal sexual desires
• s  (used of women) affected with excessive sexual desire

• This says nothing about the dysfunctions of Marion who appears to be what used to be rather quaintly called a nymphomaniac and Jack, who is a whining hypochondriac.
• When O'Toole isn't reminiscing, he is bedding or about to bed Romy, a Crazy Horse stripper (Paula Prentiss), a groundling nymphomaniac (Capucine) or a nymphomaniac who descends .
• They revel in their own contradictions; one Hartley heroine, a nymphomaniac virgin, explains the anomaly by saying, "I'm choosy.

• nympho
• nymphomaniacal

News & Articles

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• Girls Play Games in First Clip From Lars Von Trier’s ‘Nymphomaniac’
  Lars Von Trier‘s Nymphomaniac doesn’t even have a U.S. release date yet, but Magnolia has already offered up a little morsel to whet our appetite for the film. The just-released clip comes from the first chapter of the film, called “The Compleat Angler.” Although Joe is the nymphomaniac of the film’s title, in this early [...]
  June 28, 2013 - /Film
• Watch a Clip From Lars Von Trier’s Nymphomaniac
  Everyone's super excited for Lars Von Trier‘s Nymphomaniac because famous people will be having sex, using digitally imposed genitals — sexy, sexy digitally imposed genitals. The film stars Charlotte Gainsbourg, Shia LaBeouf, Jamie Bell, Uma Thurman, Willem Dafoe, Stellan Skarsgård, Christian Slater, and Connie Nielsen; however, the first clip features ... More »        
  June 28, 2013 - Vulture
• First Look! Shia's NC-17 'Nymphomaniac'
  No nudity is needed to make this first look at director Lars von Trier's drama Nymphomaniac highly sexual. It only takes a lot of dirty talk from Shia LaBeouf's co-stars Stacy Martin and Sophie Kennedy Clark.
  June 28, 2013 - ET Online via omg!

Quotes

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• Christina Ricci in Newsday
  At first, people talked about her as a nymphomaniac. And what I discovered was that it's a defunct term. When you call someone a nymphomaniac, it's like calling someone crazy. That's not really a diagnosis. What you're really talking about,...
• Lindsay Lohan in Defamer.com (blog)
  Meanwhile, Lindsay Lohan says, "I'll see your paparazzi-bedding, and raise you a former fling who sells our photos to the tabs and tells them I'm a nymphomaniac."
• Charles Krauthammer in DAWN.com
  (Charles Krauthammer, the Washington Post columnist, wrote last December, on the occasion of his 25th anniversary as an opinion writer, that "being a columnist is like being married to a nymphomaniac - as soon as you're done, you've got to do it...