English
hypersexualityhypersexuality
From hyper- + sexuality.
A compound of hyper- + sexuality
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *upér ‘over, above’
Proto-Hellenic *hupér
Ancient Greek ὑπέρ ‘over’
English hyper-
Latin sexus ‘division’
Latin sexuālis ‘sexual’
New Latin sexuālitās
English sexuality
Today it means
noun Excessive desire for sexual activity, especially when considered high enough to be clinically significant.
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