erotomaniacal
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From erotomaniac + -al.
Adjective
[edit]erotomaniacal (comparative more erotomaniacal, superlative most erotomaniacal)
- Having the psychological condition of erotomania.
- 1829, THE EDINBURGH MEDICAL AND SURGICAL JOURNAL: EXHIBITING A CONCISE VIEW OF THE LATEST AND MOST IMPORTANT DISCOVERIES IN MEDICINE, SURGERY AND PHARMACY., volume Thirty-First, page 366:
- At all events, whatever be the result, we think it would not be easy for a hypochondriacal gentleman to find a sane lady who would undertake his cure in this manner; and may be equally doubted whether any sane gentleman would undertake the cure of an erotomaniacal damsel. Probably M. Villermay may propose to pair the love-sick of the one sex with the hypochondriacs of the other.
- 2024, Nicole C. Dittmer, Monstrous Women and Ecofeminism in the Victorian Gothic, 1837–1871, Rowman & Littlefield, page 86:
- As a vicious hysteric, Bertha Mason’s madness is precipitated by an erotomaniacal response.