Graecomanian.
/ˌɡriːkəʊˈmeɪnɪə/, /ˌɡrʌɪkəʊˈmeɪnɪə/, /ˌɡrɛkəʊˈmeɪnɪə/, U.S. /ˈˌɡrɛkoʊˈmeɪniə/ A mania for things Greek.
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society > society and the community > social attitudes > patriotism > liking for or sympathy with other nations > [noun] > Greece > excessive
Graecomania1800
1800 B. Crowther (title) The Rabies Piratica, its history, symptoms, and cure; also the Furor Hippocraticus or Græcomania, with its treatment.
1831 T. Keightley Mythol. Anc. Greece & Italy 451 Each succeeding age saw the Græco-mania increase.
Derivatives
Graecoˈmaniac n. one possessed by Græcomania.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > social attitudes > patriotism > liking for or sympathy with other nations > [noun] > Greece > excessive > person
Graecomaniac1897
1897 Nation (N.Y.) 28 Jan. 75/1 Aesthetic emotion was never anything more than a pose with the Grecomaniacs of the Empire.
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