bibliomania
/ˌbɪblɪə(ʊ)ˈmeɪnɪə
/noun [mass noun]
Passionate enthusiasm for collecting and possessing books.Taking over a whole town for the cause of pages printed and bound may look to some like bibliomania....
- Librarians were outraged and felt he had given bibliomania a bad name because the word originally meant ‘an intense love for books’.
- Perhaps they will patronize him, and consider pityingly his bibliomania.
Derivatives
bibliomaniac
/ noun & adjective ...- The proper relation to books is not that of the ‘bookworm’ or ‘bibliomaniac,’ but that of the ‘creative’ reader who uses books as a stimulus to attain ‘his own sight of principles.’
- Le Prince's comments were echoed nearly forty years later by another visitor to the library, the British antiquarian and self-professed ‘bibliomaniac’ Thomas Frognall Dibdin.
- The literary essays chronicle a bibliomaniac's passion and obsession with naming and collecting.