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erethism
[ er-uh-thiz-uhm ]
noun
- an unusual or excessive degree of irritability or stimulation in an organ or tissue.
erethism
/ ˈɛɪˌθɪə /
noun
- physiol an abnormally high degree of irritability or sensitivity in any part of the body
- psychiatry
- a personality disorder resulting from mercury poisoning
- an abnormal tendency to become aroused quickly, esp sexually, as the result of a verbal or psychic stimulus
Derived Forms
- ˌˈٳ, adjective
Other yvlog Forms
- e·ٳm ··ٳ·پ [er-, uh, -, this, -tik], ··ٳ· [er-, uh, -, thit, -ik], ·ٳ· [uh, -, reth, -ik, e-, reth, -], adjective
- p··ٳ noun
yvlog History and Origins
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of erethism1
Example Sentences
From the beginning, and often for a long period antecedent to the appearance of cardiac symptoms, the subjects of Graves' disease present a considerable mental erethism.
They are irritable in the nervous sense and excitable, and this erethism increases their nervous instability which responds by craving further excitement.
Physical Effects.—The super-excitation of nerves consequent upon the more or less general erethism that is induced, lessens resistive vitality.
We write his course unfeeling, Weak, selfish, petty, flowing from the craze Of sexual jealousy, made worse by war, And universal madness, erethism Of hellish war.
All it is at first is a rude satisfaction of the erethism.
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