Definition of "hypersexual" [hypersexual]

• Excessively interested or involved in sexual activity. (adjective)

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• "It is likely that the term hypersexual disorder -- not sex addiction -- will appear in the updated version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the psychiatric Bible, due out in 2013."
• "The addition of what the APA is calling "hypersexual disorder" would legitimize sex addiction in a way that was unthinkable just a few years ago, when Bill Clinton's philandering was regarded as a moral failing or a joke - but not, in the main, as an illness."
• "He seems to be "hypersexual"-engaging in sexual relationships in a driven way that may be nearly involuntary."