hyperamative
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hyperamative (comparative more hyperamative, superlative most hyperamative)
- Excessively amorous, with sexual connotations.
- Antonyms: chaste, disinterested, unaroused
- 1992, G. M. Goshgarian, To Kiss the Chastening Rod: Domestic Fiction and Sexual Ideology in the American Renaissance[1], Cornell Press:
- “In Hartwell’s case, the provisional result is ... the equivalent, hyperamative hardness. Via Cornelia / Beulah, Eugene’s crushed arm points, directly if limply, at Hartwell’s iron phallus.”