hyper-aesthesia

Updated: June 5, 2025

If his love-affairs stopped short of the gratification of the senses, they involved a perpetual fondling and caressing of those effeminate sensibilities of his into that condition of hyper-aesthesia which, though Sterne regarded it as the strength, was in reality the weakness, of his art.

H. D. (Henry Duff) Traill - Sterne