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1. Excessive or morbid inclination to erotic thoughts and behavior. 2. The delusional belief that one is involved in a relationship with another, generally of unattainable status. [G. eros, love, + mania, frenzy]
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ero·to·ma·nia i-.rōt-ə-'mā-nē-ə, -.rät- n
1) excessive sexual desire
2) a psychological disorder marked by the delusional belief that one is the object of another person's love or sexual desire
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n.
a delusion that the individual is loved by some person, often a person of importance. Sometimes, but not always, this progresses to schizophrenia.
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ero·to·ma·nia (ə-rot″o-maґne-ə) [eroto- + -mania] 1. a type of delusional disorder in which the subject believes that a person, usually older and of higher social status, is deeply in love with him or her; failure of the object of the delusion to respond to the subject's advances are rationalized, and pursuit and harassment of that person may occur. 2. occasionally, hypersexuality.Medical dictionary. 2011.