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Nymphomaniac vs Promiscuity - What's the difference?

nymphomaniac | promiscuity |

As nouns the difference between nymphomaniac and promiscuity

is that nymphomaniac is a woman with excessive sexual desire while promiscuity is the state or quality of being promiscuous.

As an adjective nymphomaniac

is (of a woman) having excessive sexual desire.

nymphomaniac

English

(wikipedia nymphomaniac)

Alternative forms

* (of adjective ) nymphomaniacal

Noun

(en noun)
  • A woman with excessive sexual desire.
    • She's so horny she must be a nymphomaniac .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (of a woman) Having excessive sexual desire.

    • Related terms

    * (l)

    See also

    * hypersexuality

    promiscuity

    English

    Noun

    (promiscuities)
  • The state or quality of being promiscuous.
  • # Indiscriminateness in the choice of sexual partners.
  • # (dated, literary) State of being mixed, composed of diverse elements, unsystematic; heterogeneity.
  • #* 1919 ,
  • While I dressed—for Stroeve wished me to go at once with him to the hospital—he told me that he had arranged for his wife to have a private room, so that she might at least be spared the sordid promiscuity of a ward.