Don Juanism

[ don wah-niz-uhm ]

noun

, Psychiatry.

1. a syndrome, occurring in males, of excessive preoccupation with sexual gratification or conquest and leading to persistently transient and sometimes exploitative relationships.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Don Juanism¹

First recorded in 1880–85; Don Juan + -ism

Example Sentences

I promise to make you the sole repository of my regrets, rather than distribute them widely through multiple affairs and a life of sexual Don Juanism.

From New York Times

Mr. Grundy eliminated this naïve and old-fashioned Don Juanism of his.

From Project Gutenberg

Edward Henley's antiseptic Don Juanism is a calculated mockery of the mythical passions of a faithful Tristan.

From Time Magazine Archive

The unit's greatest nurse chaser, Dentist Painless Waldowski, decides that Don Juanism is a cover-up for homosexuality.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is the punishment of Don Juanism to create continually false positions—relations of life which are wrong in themselves, and which it is equally wrong to break or to perpetuate.

From Project Gutenberg