doromania
Definitions
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- noun An unusual urge or preoccupation with giving gifts.
Examples
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We must all have suffered on occasion from decubomania (an urgent desire to lie down) without quite having a word for it; many of us, while fumbling for a handy description, have encountered the symptoms of tomomania (a craze for needless surgical operations) or even doromania (a morbid desire to give presents). Scientific or not, terms like these serve a serious purpose.
John Gross, ''Words to Rhyme With,' Lexicon for the Obsessed,' The New York Times, July 28, 1986
Note
‘Doromania’ comes from the Greek ‘doron,’ gift, and ‘mania,’ madness, frenzy; enthusiasm, inspired frenzy; mad passion, fury.
