Meaning of erethism | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Abnormal excitement of a bodily organ or tissue.
   countable, uncountable
2. Any unusual or morbid overexcitement.
   countable, uncountable
3. A neurological disorder arising from mercury poisoning, leading to irritability, depression, etc.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Since the eighteenth century, sex has not ceased to provoke a kind of generalized discursive erethism.”

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