"one driven mad by passionate love" (sometimes also used in the sense of "nymphomaniac"), 1858, from erotomania.
1813, defined then as "Desperate love; sentimentalism producing morbid feelings," from combining form of erotic + mania.
updated on September 04, 2014
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