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Meaning of "graphomania" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF GRAPHOMANIA

graphomania  [ˌɡræfəʊˈmeɪnɪə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GRAPHOMANIA

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preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Graphomania is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES GRAPHOMANIA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Graphomania

Graphomania, also known as scribomania, refers to an obsessive impulse to write. When used in a specifically psychiatric context, it labels a morbid mental condition which results in writing rambling and confused statements, often degenerating into a meaningless succession of words or even nonsense and called then graphorrhea. The term 'graphomania' has been used in early 19th century by Esquirol and later by Eugen Bleuler, becoming more or less usual Graphomania is near condition to typomania - obsessiveness with seeing one's name in publication or with writing for being published, excessive symbolism or typology. Outside the psychiatric definitions of graphomania and related conditions, the word is used more broadly to label the urge and need to write excessively, whether professional or not. Max Nordau, in his attack to what he saw as degenerate art, frequently used the term 'graphomania' to label the production of the artists he condemned According...

Definition of graphomania in the English dictionary

The definition of graphomania in the dictionary is an obsession with writing.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH GRAPHOMANIA


Anglomania
ˌæŋɡləʊˈmeɪnɪə
bibliomania
ˌbɪblɪəʊˈmeɪnɪə
decalcomania
dɪˌkælkəˈmeɪnɪə
dipsomania
ˌdɪpsəʊˈmeɪnɪə
egomania
ˌiːɡəʊˈmeɪnɪə
erotomania
ɪˌrɒtəʊˈmeɪnɪə
hypomania
ˌhaɪpəʊˈmeɪnɪə
kleptomania
ˌklɛptəʊˈmeɪnɪə
leishmania
liːʃˈmeɪnɪə
mania
ˈmeɪnɪə
megalomania
ˌmɛɡələʊˈmeɪnɪə
melomania
ˌmɛləˈmeɪnɪə
nymphomania
ˌnɪmfəˈmeɪnɪə
pyromania
ˌpaɪrəʊˈmeɪnɪə
Romania
rəʊˈmeɪnɪə
Roumania
ruːˈmeɪnɪə
Rumania
ruːˈmeɪnɪə
Tasmania
tæzˈmeɪnɪə
technomania
ˌtɛknəʊˈmeɪnɪə
zoomania
ˌzəʊəˈmeɪnɪə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GRAPHOMANIA

graphics
graphics adapter
graphics card
graphite
graphitic
graphitisable
graphitisation
graphitise
graphitizable
graphitization
graphitize
graphitoid
graphium
grapholect
graphologic
graphological
graphologist
graphology
graphomotor
graphophobia

WORDS THAT END LIKE GRAPHOMANIA

cleptomania
demonomania
dinomania
eleutheromania
hydromania
hypermania
hysteromania
infomania
Lithuania
metromania
morphinomania
mythomania
necromania
Obamamania
orchidomania
petalomania
potichomania
theomania
toxicomania
tulipomania
xenomania

Synonyms and antonyms of graphomania in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «graphomania» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF GRAPHOMANIA

Find out the translation of graphomania to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of graphomania from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «graphomania» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

graphomania
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

grafomanía
570 millions of speakers

English

graphomania
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

graphomania
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

هوس الكتابة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

графоманов
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

grafomania
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

graphomania
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

graphomanie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Graphomania
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Graphomanie
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

graphomania
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

graphomania
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Graphomania
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

graphomania
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

எழுதும் ஆவல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ग्राफॉमॅनिया
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

graphomania
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

grafomania
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

grafomania
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

графоманів
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

graphomania
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

graphomania
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

graphomania
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

graphomania
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

graphomania
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of graphomania

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «GRAPHOMANIA»

The term «graphomania» is used very little and occupies the 152.069 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «GRAPHOMANIA» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «graphomania» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «graphomania» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about graphomania

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GRAPHOMANIA»

Discover the use of graphomania in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to graphomania and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Graphomania: A Fabulist Noir
When I go to the opera or the orchestra and I hear (feel) movements in time and pitch that truly do touch me, I feel like that is a gift specifically for me. This is the magic of touch.
jj hastain, 2014
2
Common Places: Mythologies of Everyday Life in Russia
The relationship between a genius and a graphomaniac is something like love- hatred, or an unhealthy codependency. The virus of graphomania is widespread, and, as the history of Russian and Soviet literature shows, it is hardly curable.
Svetlana BOYM, Svetlana Boym, 2009
3
100 Years in Newlyn: Diary of a Gallery
Portrait of a Dignitary 1970 2. Sun-Child 1971 3. Cyclops 1971 4. Shaman 1971 5. Ripples 1971 6. Night and Day 1971 7. Eye of Horus 1971 8. Open Entrance 1971 33. Graphomania : red 1971 34. Graphomania : blue 1971 35. Graphomania ...
Melissa Hardie, 1995
4
The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, ...
Graphomania is not a desire to write letters, diaries, or family chronicles (to write for oneself or one's immediate family); it is a desire to write b00ks (to have a public of unknown readers). Graphomania, the desire to be published, thus exists hi ...
Alice W. Flaherty, 2005
5
Kundera, Or, The Memory of Desire
It has become their only reality, their second skin beneath which “reality no longer represents anything for anyone”; life with its parade of disagreements is definitively elsewhere. On Graphomania The graphic epidemic which characterizes the ...
Eva Le Grand, 1999
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The Art of Writing Badly: Valentin Kataev's Mauvism and the ...
209; my emphasis) Nabokov, in his parodies of literary societies in The Gift, provides evidence that solipsistic graphomania survived intact in the emigration, in a "free" literary market. Likewise, there is ample evidence that graphomania held a ...
Richard Chandler Borden, 1999
7
Playing with Sketches: 50 Creative Exercises for Designers ...
In the case of entopic graphomania, the artist was to discover the impurities on a piece of paper, place dots on the impurities, and draw connections between the dots. This was considered an automatic drawing, one originating from elements ...
Whitney Sherman, 2013
8
Obsession: A History
4. Never. Done: Compulsive. Writing,. Graphomania,. Bibliomania. Much has been written about the nineteenth-century novel, but one characteristic has been overlooked, perhaps because it is so obvious. The great novelists of that century  ...
Lennard J. Davis, 2009
9
The Book of Imitation and Desire: Reading Milan Kundera with ...
His reflections on what he calls “graphomania” aim mostly at novelists, but they apply equally well to graduate students and university professors, who place boundless faith in triangular “peer reviewing” and enshrine imitative rivalry in the form ...
Trevor Cribben Merrill, 2013
10
In the Red: On Contemporary Chinese Culture
writing,2 I felt that the publishing furor and writing fever that had followed in the train of political relaxation and the recent commercialization of the arts had led, among other things, to a wave of national graphomania. In my concluding remarks, ...
Geremie Barmé, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GRAPHOMANIA»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term graphomania is used in the context of the following news items.
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Don't believe everything you read
... and his coterie of hangers-on, the tightrope-walking of a heroine, a boy swallowed whole by a fish and the manic graphomania of a hero and ... «Jerusalem Post Israel News, Jul 15»
2
'The Pinch,' a magical new novel by Steve Stern
... a tightrope walker and the long bout of graphomania during which he ignores everything else to write the book Lenny will read decades later. «Washington Post, Jul 15»
3
Thesis work: Curricula alterations that 'made history'
He uses entopic graphomania, a surrealist technique, to diminish the importance of a chapter. “The curriculum has been constructed in a ... «The Express Tribune, Jun 15»
4
'Opposition Bloc' claims being threatened by 'Ukrainian Insurgent …
"It seems that the author [or authors] was carried away by their graphomania and forgot to take a look at the calendar, or could it be that the time ... «Interfax, Apr 15»
5
Man Booker International Prize
This (to use an incorrigibly academic word) foregrounding of medium rather than message shows up too in the “graphomania” of César Aira, ... «Financial Times, Apr 15»
6
Dear Diary, I Hate You
Of all the psychological conditions to be burdened with, graphomania is hardly the worst, and Manguso doesn't quite succeed in dispelling the ... «The New Yorker, Mar 15»
7
Dictionary of Failure Is a Big Success
... the United Kingdom's lesser-used train routes, rare psychological complaints (bibliophagy and graphomania in particular), translations of ... «Daily Beast, Mar 15»
8
A Life Examined — And Examined And Examined In 'Ongoingness'
... I can well understand Manguso's "graphomania," but the word "ever" gives me pause: everything that had ever happened? That, and the fact ... «NPR, Mar 15»
9
The crack of the spine: why do we find wear and tear in books so …
However inconsequential this accrued graphomania might be, it is physical testimony to years of efforts to try and turn idle musings into ... «New Statesman, Feb 15»
10
Going Underground: The London Modernist Literary Event at the …
... for such orchestrated rallies of a literary bent can be better explained and put into context by Milan Kundera's interpretation of graphomania. «Huffington Post UK, Feb 15»

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