nympholept
English edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek νυμφόληπτος (numphólēptos, “caught by nymphs, frenzied”), from νύμφη (númphē) + λαμβάνω (lambánō, “I take”).
Noun edit
nympholept (plural nympholepts)
- A person in a state of nympholepsy.
- 1922, D.H. Lawrence, The Evening Land:
- Dark faery, / Modern, unissued, instinctive America, / Your nascent faery people / Lurking among the deeps of your industrial thicket, / Allure me till I am beside myself, / A nympholept.