aphanisis

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Noun — The loss of sexual desire, once thought by psychoanalysts to lie behind every neurosis.

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Etymology

Comes from Ancient Greek ἀφάνισις (aphánisis, 'disappearance'). In its psychology sense, the word was coined by Ernest Jones in 1927.