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countable and uncountable, plural nympholepsies
A frenzied state of (usually erotic) emotion, especially concerning something or someone unattainable. quotations examples
If young persons of both sexes were brought together in the honest practical relations of organized labor, we should see no more of these fond nympholepsies
1852, Mary Edgewood Lazarus, Love Vs. Marriage: Part 1, page 292