nympholept means A person in a state of nympholepsy. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Why “nympholept” is a great word
NYMPHOLEPT — [Noun] One who is seized by a state of ecstatic frenzy or spiritual rapture, originally conceived as being caused by nymphs. From Ancient Greek νυμφόληπτος (numphólēptos, "caught by nymphs, frenzied"), from νύμφη (númphē, "nymph") + λαμβάνω (lambánō, "I take, seize"). First attested in English circa 1805–15. Unlike "nymphomaniac," which denotes a pathology of sexual appetite, or "ecstatic," a general term for overwhelming emotion, the nympholept is haunted by a specific, sublime possession—an ache for an idealized beauty that is perpetually just beyond the veil. It is the poet frozen before a sun-dappled grove, the wanderer who hears immortal laughter in a mountain stream, and the scholar whose life's work is a shrine to a muse he can never touch. The nympholept does not desire a body, but a ghost; his frenzy is for the eternally vanishing.
Etymology
From Ancient Greek νυμφόληπτος (numphólēptos, “caught by nymphs, frenzied”), from νύμφη (númphē) + λαμβάνω (lambánō, “I take”).
noun
- A person in a state of nympholepsy.“Dark faery, / Modern, unissued, instinctive America, / Your nascent faery people / Lurking among the deeps of your industrial thicket, / Allure me till I am beside myself, / A nympholept.”