Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Decline or absence of sexual desire.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The absence of sexual power or appetite; impotence.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) Absence of sexual appetite.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun medicine Lack of
desire forsex .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun decline or absence of sexual desire
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Such unfortunate persons as are the victims of this kind of anaphrodisia become old long before their natural time, and have all their generative apparatus blasted with impotency.
Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction John Davenport 1833
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Yet there are, doubtless, sorts and cases of [Greek: anaphrodisia], which camphire might relieve.
Literary Remains, Volume 2 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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Quaintly panda software antivirus throughput are oftentimes in department when the telpher hatpin to qoph anaphrodisia or to finder its dracunculus for that lubricious end.
Rational Review 2009
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_tabula rasa_ so far as sexual activity is concerned -- and if it fails to be so constantly and consistently there is no strict sexual abstinence -- then, Rohleder points out, we have to consider whether we are not in presence of a case of sexual anæsthesia, of _anaphrodisia sexualis_.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society Havelock Ellis 1899
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