Erotomania, a term used for morbid and extravagant love-passion either melancholic or maniacal (see INSANITY). In the latter case it is closely akin to the still more aggravated satyriasis (in men) and nymphomania (in women).
Erotomania
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 4: Dionysius to Friction, p. 415
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