As a remedy against all ills—
poverty, sickness, and melancholy—
only one thing is absolutely necessary:
a liking for work.
-Charles Baudelaire
eroticomania, erotomania: 1. An abnormally powerful sex drive. 2. An excessive melancholy or a kind of insanity arising from passionate love. 3. A pathologic preoccupation with sexual fantasies or activities.
A syndrome that occurs almost exclusively in women and consists of a delusional belief that a man, usually older and of higher social status, is deeply in love with her (the patient).
Based on information from the Psychiatric Dictionary,
6th ed., by Robert J. Campbell, M.D.,
Oxford University Press, N.Y., 1989.
erotodromomania: The morbid impulse to travel as an escape from some painful sexual situation.
erotographomania: 1. An obsession to write love letters or to write erotic or pornographic literature. 2. An abnormal interest in erotic literature.
erotomania: A syndrome that occurs almost exclusively in females, consisting of the delusional belief that a man, usually older and of higher social status, is deeply in love with her. Sometimes erotomania is used as an equivalent of hypersexuality.
erotophobia: An excessive fear of sexual feelings and their physical expressions. It includes a fear of anything that arouses or intensifies erotic feelings via thoughts, printed matter, videos, films, etc.
erythromania: A compulsion to blush over minor incidents or a mania for the color red; or by extension, an obsession about blood.
erythrophobia, erytophobia, ereuthophobia: An excessive fear of the color red or of blushing which is manifest only when other people are present. A change of color may not be at all evident to the observer, despite the fact that the phobic (most commonly a woman) insists that she feels bright red; the force of her fear often leads the individual to a severe restriction of her social life.
esodophobia: A fear of losing one's virginity or its loss by some other person.
esthesiomania: Insanity with a perversion of the senses.
estromania: An exaggerated sexual desire in a female; nymphomania.
etheromania: A morbid addiction to the consumption of ether or other inhalants as a stimulant or intoxicant.
e-thrombosis: See deep-vein thrombophobia for information.
ethnomania: An obsessive devotion to one's own race, people, or ancestry.
euphobia: An abnormal fear of hearing good news which may be related to the fear of gaiety, laughter, or of having successes with endeavors.
Europhobia: An abnormal fear of the new currency that was established by Euroland and what it might do to the currencies that were in use [as of January, 1999].
Success is getting what you want;
happiness is wanting what you get.
-Anonymous
eurotophobia: An abnormal fear of female genitals which may have an adverse affect on both women and men.
eyes: See ommaophobia, optophobia
exhaustion, fatigue: See kopophobia
extraterrestrial: See uranomania
