单词 | gamomania |
释义 | > as lemmasgamomania gamomania n. Brit. , U.S. rare obsession with marriage (see also quot. 1885).ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > irrational loves and desires crack1601 plutomania1652 hippomania1780 hydromania1803 zoomania1807 craze1813 musicomania1833 musomania1833 nostomania1835 gamomania1841 dipsomania1843 mesmero-mania1843 theomania1853 opsomania1857 potomania1858 opiomania1868 polemomania1874 xenomania1879 oenomania1897 Pygmalionism1905 urolagnia1906 claustrophilia1926 Undinism1928 leprophilia1953 leprophilia1963 thanatophilia1974 1841 Brit. Mag. & Monthly Reg. June 611 The slights which Elizabeth never failed to put upon the wives of clergymen..may have done something to abate this gamomania: poverty did more. 1885 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Gamomania, a form of insanity characterised by strange and extravagant proposals for marriage. 1900 Jrnl. Mental Sci. 46 539 Alexander the Great, we are told, was afflicted with moral insanity and ‘gamomania’, which he showed by making ten thousand of his soldiers marry Persian women. 1997 L. Jaivin Eat Me (1998) 209 None of us girls have been afflicted by gamomania or biological clock watching. Not yet, anyway. < as lemmas |
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