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Webster 1913 Edition

(nĭm′fō̍-lĕpˊsy̆)

Noun.

[Gr.

νύμφη

a nymph +

λαμβάνειν

to seize.]

A species of demoniac enthusiasm or possession coming upon one who had accidentally looked upon a nymph; ecstasy.

[R.]

De Quincey.

The

nympholepsy

of some fond despair.

Byron.

nympholepsy ‎(plural nympholepsies)

A frenzied state of (usually erotic) emotion, especially concerning something or someone unattainable.
- 1852, Mary Edgewood Lazarus, Love Vs. Marriage: Part 1, page 292
  If young persons of both sexes were brought together in the honest practical relations of organized labor, we should see no more of these fond nympholepsies