Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Excessively interested or involved in sexual activity.
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- adjective Excessively interested in
sex - adjective Of or relating to
hypersexuality
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Examples
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It is likely that the term hypersexual disorder -- not sex addiction -- will appear in the updated version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the psychiatric Bible, due out in 2013.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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The addition of what the APA is calling "hypersexual disorder" would legitimize sex addiction in a way that was unthinkable just a few years ago, when Bill Clinton's philandering was regarded as a moral failing or a joke - but not, in the main, as an illness.
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He seems to be "hypersexual"-engaging in sexual relationships in a driven way that may be nearly involuntary.
FOXNews.com 2011
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The remainder of the verses -- with which the suburban sopranos will doubtless break the serenity of the suburban nights this summer -- were of a "sloppy" sentimentality combined with a kind of hypersexual idiocy unparalleled except in an English ballad of the popular order.
Over the Fireside with Silent Friends Richard King 1913
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We define female breasts as "hypersexual" (quotes because it's not the perfect term, but gets at the meaning).
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Creation of several new diagnoses, such as hypersexual disorder and binge eating disorder.
Livescience.com 2010
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Creation of several new diagnoses, such as hypersexual disorder and binge eating disorder.
Livescience.com 2010
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Cheating on a spouse -- is it simple philandering or a psychological affiction? sex addiction "-- clinically known as hypersexual disorder -- has been tossed around with increasing frequency since a growing string of celebrity adulterers have blamed their affairs on what they say are uncontrollable urges.
ABC News: ABCNews 2010
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In film portrayals of African Americans, by the early 1970s, the sexless and self-sacrificing characters played by Sidney Poitier during the civil rights era had been replaced by hypersexual superheroes who had achieved spectacular wealth by means other than “working for the Man.”
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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"The more we see female characters who are hypersexual, one-dimensional eye candy, sidelined, or not even there," Davis said, "the more it affects the way boys and girls think about girls."
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