Don Juanism

Don Juanism
/don wah"niz euhm/, Psychiatry.
a syndrome, occurring in males, of excessive preoccupation with sexual gratification or conquest and leading to persistently transient and sometimes exploitative relationships. Also called satyriasis. Cf. nymphomania.
[1880-85; DON JUAN + -ISM]

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