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collectomania en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Etymology

From collect + -o- + -mania.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) An obsessive desire to collect things.
    • Only one thing could be considered and attributed: Leah's collectomania that grew to fanatic proportions after marriage. 1993, Carl Muller, The Jam Fruit Tree, page 126:
    • The apparent absence of selection criteria in Warhol's collectomania was also a characteristic of 'Raid the Icebox I', the touring show that he curated in 1969 at the Institute for the Arts in Houston [...]. 2007, Anna Dezeuze, “Unpacking Joseph Cornell”, in Joseph Cornell: Opening The Box, page 223:
    • Dreiser 's naturalism textually mimics capitalism's collectomania and fetishistic obsession with material objects and facts [...]. 1994, Irene Gammel, Sexualizing Power in Naturalism, page 181:

Synonyms

collectionitis