Word Meanings - BIBLIOMANIAC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who has a mania for books. -- a.

Related words: (words related to BIBLIOMANIAC)

• BOOKSELLING
  The employment of selling books.
• BOOKSTAND
  1. A place or stand for the sale of books in the streets; a bookstall. 2. A stand to hold books for reading or reference.
• MANIABLE
  Manageable. Bacon.
• BOOKSHOP
  A bookseller's shop.
• MANIAC
  Raving with madness; raging with disordered intellect; affected with mania; mad.
• BOOKSHELF
  A shelf to hold books.
• BOOKSELLER
  One who sells books.
• BOOKSTORE
  A store where books are kept for sale; -- called in England a bookseller's shop.
• 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;
• BOOKSTALL
  A stall or stand where books are sold.
• 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.
• 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.