Word Meanings - ICONOMANIA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A mania or infatuation for icons, whether as objects of devotion, bric-a-brac, or curios.

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• INFATUATION
  The act of infatuating; the state of being infatuated; folly; that which infatuates. The infatuations of the sensual and frivolous part of mankind are amazing; but the infatuations of the learned and sophistical are incomparably more so. I. Taylor.
• DEVOTIONALLY
  In a devotional manner; toward devotion.
• CURIOSO
  A virtuoso.
• MANIABLE
  Manageable. Bacon.
• MANIAC
  Raving with madness; raging with disordered intellect; affected with mania; mad.
• DEVOTIONAL
  Pertaining to, suited to, or used in, devotion; as, a devotional posture; devotional exercises; a devotional frame of mind.
• WHETHERING
  The retention of the afterbirth in cows. Gardner.
• WHETHER
  In case; if; -- used to introduce the first or two or more alternative clauses, the other or others being connected by or, or by or whether. When the second of two alternatives is the simple negative of the first it is sometimes only indicated by
• MANIACAL
  Affected with, or characterized by, madness; maniac. -- Ma*ni"a*cal*ly, adv.
• DEVOTION
  1. The act of devoting; consecration. 2. The state of being devoted; addiction; eager inclination; strong attachment love or affection; zeal; especially, feelings toward God appropriately expressed by acts of worship; devoutness. Genius animated
• CURIOSITY
  curiouste, curiosite, OF. curioseté, curiosité, F. curiosit, fr. L. 1. The state or quality or being curious; nicety; accuracy; exactness; elaboration. Bacon. When thou wast in thy gilt and thy perfume, they mocked thee for too much curiosity.
• DEVOTIONALITY
  The practice of a devotionalist. A. H. Clough.
• 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;
• DEVOTIONALIST; DEVOTIONIST
  One given to devotion, esp. to excessive formal devotion.
• 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.
• INCURIOSITY
  Want of curiosity or interest; inattentiveness; indifference. Sir H. Wotton.
• 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.
• SELF-DEVOTION
  The act of devoting one's self, or the state of being self- devoted; willingness to sacrifice one's own advantage or happiness for the sake of others; self-sacrifice.
• DOMANIAL
  Of or relating to a domain or to domains.
• 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.