anaphrodisia

[ an-af-ruh-dee-zhuh, -dizh-uh, -diz-ee-uh ]

noun

, Psychiatry.

1. diminished sexual desire.

Word History and Origins

Origin of anaphrodisia¹

< Greek anaphrodīsía inability to inspire love; an- ¹, aphrodisia

Example Sentences

Cutaneous anæsthesia and alcoholic anaphrodisia make the sufferers fancy they have lost the generative organs, nose, legs, etc.; dyspepsia, exhaustion, and paresis, that they have been poisoned or are being persecuted.

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