Meaning of "typomania" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF TYPOMANIA

typomania  [ˌtaɪpəʊˈmeɪnɪə]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TYPOMANIA

Typomania is a noun.

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WHAT DOES TYPOMANIA 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 typomania in the English dictionary

The definition of typomania in the dictionary is an obsession with typology. Other definition of typomania is an obsession with being published.

TRANSLATION OF TYPOMANIA

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TYPOMANIA»

Discover the use of typomania in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to typomania and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Bartkowiaks forum book art 2005/2006

Twenty Years of 'Typomania' 1987–2006 über die Teilnehmer und die Themen dieser besonderen jährlichen Drucker-Treffen im Hans-Hergot-Thurm in Uelzen erscheint anlässlich ihres zwanzigsten Jahrestages in MATRIX Nr. 25, dem ...

Heinz Stefan Bartkowiak (Hrsg.)

Hole in the Wall

Arbeitsprobe: Brettspiel »Typomania« Wer weiß schon alles über Typografie und ihre Regeln? Einer bestimmt und zwar der Ту poma n ас Wäre es nicht schön, man hätte selber soviel Wissen? Wie wird man ein Typomaniac? Typo- maniac ...

Judith M. Grieshaber, 2002

Rapidex Enrich Your Word Power

Squandermania Stampomania Technomania Teutomania Thanatomania Theatromania Theomania Timbromania Tomomania Toxicomania Trichotillomania Tulipomania Typhomania Typomania Trichotillomania Xenomania Zoomania ...

Pustak Mahal Editorial

American Photojournalism: Motivations and Meanings

Americans had caught what French wags ridiculed as daguerreo- typomania. Demand for the portraits was strong, and many out-of- work Americans saw an opportunity to rebound from the depression by launching a new career. From New ...

Claude Hubert Cookman, 2009

Totally Weird and Wonderful Words

A related typo- word is typomania, the overwhelming desire to see one's name in print. tyrotoxism [tye-roh-tock-siz-um] cheese-poisoning. This particular ptomaine (diazobenzene hydroxide) can also be found in bad milk. From Greek words ...

Erin McKean, 2006

The theology of the early patriarchs, illustrated by an ...

Neque enim inter eos nomen meum profiteor, quibus meritd typomania vel allegoro- mania imputari queat. Multae in hoc genere cogitationes piae sunt, neque cum analogic fidei pugnantes, verum tamen non omnes seque solidae. Fabric.

Thomas Tregenna Biddulph, 1825

A Lexicon of Lunacy

... depression) tromomania (delirium tremens; also called potomania) Turkomania (o. with Turkey and things Turkish) typomania (o. with the expectation of publication) uteromania (nymphomania) xenomania (m. for foreigners) zoomania (1. of ...

Thomas Szasz, 1993

Just My Type: A Book About Fonts

... saidin aBBCfilm aboutcultural artefacts. 'Words are there tobe read –endofstory . Once however typomania sets in,it becomes quite a differentstory.' The big yellow bible of the type world Spiekermann's rise.

Simon Garfield, 2010

Design with Type

tOAfta* TYPOMANIA MAWIA MAWl* ttU.tl.1U MASH* another, we know the latter is in front of the former. When this phenomenon occurs on a two-dimensional surface, the relative positions of the two objects are given a spatial connota i tion.

Carl Dair, 1952

Psychiatry Made Easy

... Syphilomania Technomania Teutomania Thanatomania Theatromania Theomania Timbromania Tomomania Toxicomania Trichotillomania Tulipomania Typhomania Typomania Uranomania Verbomania Xenomania Zoomania obsession ...

T. Anbu, 2014

8 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TYPOMANIA»

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Magyar fesztivált tartottak Moszkvában

Meghívták Major Lajos tipográfust is, aki a Typomania nevű moszkvai fesztiválra érkezett, s egyúttal felkérték egy Magyarország felirat megalkotására. A betűket ... «Bumm.sk, Jun 15»

Lustrafest 2014: первый взгляд

В секции «Типографика» ломали представления о работе с буквами Александр Васин (основатель фестиваля «TYPOMANIA»), Юлиан Суетин (“BBDO ... «Группа Быстрого Реагирования, Oct 14»

Фестиваль "Зимняя лаборатория" пройдет в РГБ в выходные

Также в рамках "Зимней лаборатории" пройдут фестиваль шрифта, каллиграфии и видео Typomania, перформансы от "Лаборатории медиа-поэзии", ... «РИА Новости, Dec 13»

Граффити в Москве: от поп-арта до абстракций и сказок

... товарищества иллюстраторов ЦЕХ, учредитель ежегодного международного фестиваля шрифта, типографики, каллиграфии и видео "Typomania". «Городской круглосуточный информационный телеканал <<Москва 24>>, Aug 13»

To Helvetica and back: Our love/hate relationship with typefaces

As well as inventing FF Meta and FF Unit, he coined the term Typomania, a disorder which stops sufferers from walking past a sign without first determining its ... «Metro, Apr 13»

Confessions of a Typomaniac

Of all the truly calamitous afflictions of the modern world, typomania is one of the most alarming and least understood. It was first diagnosed by the German ... «Wall Street Journal, Sep 11»

What Your Font is Secretly Telling the World About You

To my delight and surprise, my book about fonts sold a lot of copies in the U.K., and it transpired that I wasn't alone in my typomania. There is also an apparent ... «Wall Street Journal, Aug 11»

Joss Whedon Talks 'Dr. Horrible,' 'Dollhouse' and More

Here goes Typomania! If I don't get to a question, forgive. There are many, and I'm dodging the tough ones. But, yeah, Penny is not the feminist icon of our age. «Washington Post, Jul 08»