"This is not a succedaneum for satisfying the nympholepsy of nullifidians.

Because the states of madness, possession, and illness were not always strictly distinguished in antiquity, "nympholepsy" became a morbid or undesirable condition.

In Greek, "nympholepsy" ("seizure by the nymphs") was primarily "a heightening of awareness and elevated verbal skills" resulting from the influence of the nymphs on an individual.

I got perhaps too much of a laugh out of Humbert's word "nympholepsy," HH's art of drugging young girls which, with his inexperience, he was finding to be an inexact science.

All around me were frenetic, murdcrous demons, satyrs mad with nympholepsy, ghouls that seemed to sniff the odors of the charnel, lamias voluptuously coiled about their victims, and less namable things that belonged to the outland realms of evil myth and malign superstition.