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erotodromomania
In psychiatry, the morbid impulse to travel as an escape from some painful sexual situation.
erotographomania
1. An obsession to write love letters or to write erotic or pornographic literature.
2. An abnormal interest in erotic literature.
3. In psychiatry, a morbid impulse to write love letters.
The letters are generally written anonymously.
erotomania, erotomaniac
1. An abnormally powerful sex drive.
2. A melancholy or kind of insanity arising from passionate love.
3. A pathologic preoccupation with sexual fantasies or activities. A syndrome that occurs almost exclusively in women and consists of a delusional belief that a man, usually older and of higher social status, is deeply in love with the patient.
erythromania
A compulsion to blush over minor incidents or a mania for the color red; or by extension, an obsession about blood.
esthesiomania
Insanity with a perversion of the senses.
estromania
An exaggerated sexual desire in a female; nymphomania.
etheromania
A morbid addiction to the consumption of ether or other inhalants.
flagellomania
1. An enthusiasm for flogging or whipping.
2. Erotic pleasure or stimulation derived from whipping or of being whipped.
florimania
A madness for flowers (or plants) in general or for one particular kind of flower (or plant).
Francomania
A craze or excessive fondness for France or for things related to France.
fumimania, fumimaniac; fumiphobia, fumiphobiac: created by John G. Robertson
The terms,
capnomania, fumimania, et al. are all coined terms that mean "obsessive or uncontrollable desires or habits of smoking one or more tobacco products" (especially cigarettes; but they may include cigars, pipes, etc.) all of which also can be defined as "tobacco addictions".
They were coined by John G. Robertson in 2002 for his book: An Excess of Phobias and Manias, published in 2003, because they were unavailable in any dictionaries or other known sources to express these conditions.
The terms capno- comes from Greek and fumi- comes from Latin; both of which refer to various kinds of "smoke".
See the pages at this Capnomania-Fumimania, Part 1 for the poem, "The Ballad of Salvation Bill" and other pages about the problems of smoking from the past to the present.
You may see similar words (capnomania, capnomaniac, capnophobia, capnophobiac) which were also created by John Robertson at this capno- unit of words.
fumimania; also, capnomania
An obsessive or uncontrollable desire to smoke a tobacco product (cigarettes, cigars, or pipe, etc.) which are often an addiction.
fumimaniac (s), fumimaniacs (pl)
Anyone who has an obsession, or uncontrollable habit of smoking a tobacco product (cigarettes, cigars, or tobacco in pipes, etc.).
These words were coined by John G. Robertson because they were unavailable from any other source of information when his book, An Excess of Phobias and Manias was published in 2003.
Gallomania
An unreasoning attachment to France or French customs.
gamomania, gamomaniac; or gamonomania
1. A morbid desire to marry.
2. A form of insanity characterized by any extravagant or outrageous proposals of marriage.
Cross references of word families that are related directly, or indirectly, to: "anger, angry; rage, wrath, fury; rave":
fur-, furi-;
ira-;
lysso-;
rab-, rav-.
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