Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as dancing-mania.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun informal Enthusiasm for dinosaurs.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

dino +‎ -mania

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word dinomania.

Examples

  • The film launched a wave of dinomania, and, almost two decades later, it remains the standard image of what dinosaurs would have been like in life.

    That's Not a Dinosaur! Brian Switek 2011

  • The clashing of music and visual senses in Inglorious Basterd bugged the hell out of me. dinomania

    Tarantino Will Make Another Film Before Kill Bill 3; Perhaps a Western or Gangster Picture | /Film 2009

  • Does the open ending of "Jurassic Park" mean more dinomania to come?

    A 'Jurassic' Sequel? Maybe. 2008

  • Americans are hardly the only ones gripped by dinomania.

    All The World Loves A Dinosaur 2008

  • Every serious scientist was ready to concede that it somehow exceeded the bounds of scientific inquiry, that it had become (and indeed had always been) an object of popular fascination and mass appeal, a strange obsession known as "dinomania."

    The Romantic Education of W.J.T. Mitchell 1997

  • Every serious scientist was ready to concede that it somehow exceeded the bounds of scientific inquiry, that it had become (and indeed had always been) an object of popular fascination and mass appeal, a strange obsession known as "dinomania."

    The Last Formalist, or W.J.T. Mitchell as Romantic Dinosaur 1997

  • As a practicing paleontologist, I would love to believe that current dinomania arose as a direct product of our research, and of all the fascinating new ideas that our profession has generated about dinosaurs.

    Dinomania Gould, Stephen Jay 1993

  • As a symbol of our dilemma, consider the plight of natural history museums in the light of commercial dinomania.

    Dinomania Gould, Stephen Jay 1993

  • What promotes this substrate to overt and pervasive dinomania?

    Dinomania Gould, Stephen Jay 1993

  • These crazes were not provoked by any technological improvement in the design of yo-yos (just as more competent dinosaurs do not engender dinomania).

    Dinomania Gould, Stephen Jay 1993

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.