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Hypersexual vs Supersexual - What's the difference?

hypersexual | supersexual |

As adjectives the difference between hypersexual and supersexual

is that hypersexual is excessively interested in sex while supersexual is above or beyond the sexual.

hypersexual

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Excessively interested in sex
  • Of or relating to hypersexuality

    • supersexual

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Above or beyond the sexual.
  • * 1965 , George M Ridenour, Shelley: a collection of critical essays
    • ...through the pivotal and half-metaphysical Child in Prometheus, to the supersexual Hermaphrodite and alligator-boys in The Witch of Atlas .
  • Extremely sexual; hypersexual.
  • * 2000 , Marianne Noble, The masochistic pleasures of sentimental literature
    • ...barred by race from bourgeois respectability, African Americans have traditionally been mythologized as supersexual beings associated with tropical heat...

    Derived terms

    * supersexuality