Talk:Erotolepsy

"a passionate sensual desire and longing which is more violent and urgently felt than erotomania."

It's good that "erotolepsy" is no longer being redirected to erotomania (see redirects for discussion: erotolepsy), but erotomania is not really a feeling of love; rather it's a delusion that someone else is in love with you. Most of those afflicted with erotomania end falling in love with their perceived secret admirers, but others do not, and are only aware that someone else secretly loves them. The latter case would still be considered erotomania, no? If so, erotomania is not a feeling, per se. It is only a type of delusion that may or may not actually produce feelings of love.

Also, why is erotolepsy in the medicine and psychology project? It does not seem to be a medical term at all. --Roastporkbun (talk) 08:34, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

According to Wiktionary, there are two definitions of erotomania: the first is the one you acknowledge, the second is the one you discount. Using the second definition listed (excessive sexual inclination or desire), erotolepsy is an intense form of erotomania characterized by 'seizures' (ie. periods of delusion).

As for the projects on this talk page, the psychology and medicine notices are present because the term "erotolepsy" is derived from a psychological term (Eros) and a medical term (epilepsy). Neelix (talk) 02:49, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

I disagree that erotolepsy should be included in the medicine project. The person who made up the word 'erotolepsy' might have borrowed terms from the medical field, but as such erotolepsy is not a medical condition. The term 'erotomania' is only colloquially used to describe a person's strong feeling of love. But erotomania is actually a component of psychosis. Roastporkbun (talk) 16:20, 3 July 2009 (UTC)