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melomania|mɛləʊˈmeɪnɪə|
[ad. F. mélomanie, f. Gr. µέλο-ς song, music + µανία madness: see -mania.]
A mania for music. Hence meloˈmaniac, one who has a craze for music.
1880V. Lee Stud. Italy iii. ii. 115 The Florentine aristocracy had the fashionable melomania to almost as great an extent as the Milanese. 1880Pall Mall Budget 3 Dec. 10/2 M. Grévy is a melomaniac. 1921W. J. Turner Mus. & Life 18 It seems characteristic of that bogus science rampant among us to call persons fond of music ‘melomaniacs’. 1926C. Gray in Gray & Heseltine Carlo Gesualdo i. 46 This musical education and culture was by no means confined to the male sex... Lucrezia d'Este, afterwards Duchess of Urbino, was a veritable melomaniac. 1973Times Lit. Suppl. 17 Aug. 955/5 A silent musical feast, this one, but a must for all connoisseurs and melomaniacs. |