Word Meanings - ANGLOMANIA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A mania for, or an inordinate attachment to, English customs, institutions, etc.

Related words: (words related to ANGLOMANIA)

• MANIAC
  Raving with madness; raging with disordered intellect; affected with mania; mad.
• ENGLISHWOMAN
  Fem. of Englishman. Shak.
• MANIABLE
  Manageable. Bacon.
• INORDINATE
  Not limited to rules prescribed, or to usual bounds; irregular; excessive; immoderate; as, an inordinate love of the world. "Inordinate desires." Milton. "Inordinate vanity." Burke. -- In*or"di*nate*ly, adv. -- In*or"di*nate*ness, n.
• ENGLISHRY
  1. The state or privilege of being an Englishman. Cowell. 2. A body of English or people of English descent; -- commonly applied to English people in Ireland. A general massacre of the Englishry. Macaulay.
• MANIACAL
  Affected with, or characterized by, madness; maniac. -- Ma*ni"a*cal*ly, adv.
• MANIA
  1. Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity. Cf. Delirium. 2. Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; as, the tulip mania. Mania a potu Etym: , madness from drinking; delirium tremens. Syn. -- Insanity;
• ENGLISHABLE
  Capable of being translated into, or expressed in, English.
• ENGLISHMAN
  A native or a naturalized inhabitant of England.
• ENGLISHISM
  1. A quality or characteristic peculiar to the English. M. Arnold. 2. A form of expression peculiar to the English language as spoken in England; an Anglicism.
• ATTACHMENT
  1. The act attaching, or state of being attached; close adherence or affection; fidelity; regard; anas, an attachment to a friend, or to a party. 2. That by which one thing is attached to another; connection; as, to cut the attachments of a muscle.
• ENGLISH
  Of or pertaining to England, or to its inhabitants, or to the present so-called Anglo-Saxon race. English bond (more info) tribe of Germans from the southeast of Sleswick, in Denmark, who
• MEGALOMANIA
  A form of mental alienation in which the patient has grandiose delusions.
• NYMPHOMANIA
  Morbid and uncontrollable sexual desire in women, constituting a true disease.
• ICONOMANIA
  A mania or infatuation for icons, whether as objects of devotion, bric-a-brac, or curios.
• DECALCOMANIA; DECALCOMANIE
  The art or process of transferring pictures and designs to china, glass, marble, etc., and permanently fixing them thereto.
• ELEUTHEROMANIAC
  Mad for freedom.
• KLEPTOMANIA
  A propensity to steal, claimed to be irresistible. This does not constitute legal irresponsibility. Wharton.
• TASMANIAN
  Of or pertaining to Tasmania, or Van Diemen's Land. -- n. A native or inhabitant of Tasmania; specifically , in the plural, the race of men that formerly inhabited Tasmania, but is now extinct. Tasmanain cider tree. See the Note under Eucalyptus.
• DOMANIAL
  Of or relating to a domain or to domains.
• REATTACHMENT
  The act of reattaching; a second attachment.
• DIPSOMANIAC
  One who has an irrepressible desire for alcoholic drinks.
• ANTHOMANIA
  A extravagant fondness for flowers.
• DIPSOMANIACAL
  Of or pertaining to dipsomania.
• MONOMANIA
  Derangement of the mind in regard of a single subject only; also, such a concentration of interest upon one particular subject or train of ideas to show mental derangement. Syn. -- Insanity; madness; alienation; aberration; derangement; mania. See
• BIBLIOMANIAC
  One who has a mania for books. -- a.
• TYPHOMANIA
  A low delirium common in typhus fever.
• METROMANIA
  A mania for writing verses.
• MONOMANIAC
  A person affected by monomania.