Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A morbid impulse to write or compose.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The compulsion to
write books . - noun Used as part of the name of various surrealist techniques, e.g., a method in which dots are made at the sites of impurities in a blank sheet of paper, and lines are then made between the dots, see "w:Entoptic graphomania".
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Examples
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Most people who allege to have known him personally seem to agree that Calembour was a brilliant, talkative, yet ornery and disagreeable man prone to fits of alcoholism, chain-smoking, argumentativeness, graphomania, and elitism.
Excerpt from Calembouria (in collaboration with Anthony Metivier) 2010
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I stopped for a while just look at the date of my last post! and got carried away from my graphomania into different direction.
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She also governs graphomania in all its manifestations, and the related ekdotomania, the compulsion to publish a new book every year.
The Anti-Muses : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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The book criticies the graphomania, singers like Azis and Ivana, Gergana and anecdote because of their cynism.
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This risk is, specifically, the production of a work of such overwhelming eclecticism that it turns abundance into aesthetic bedlam, largesse into graphomania.
Archive 2007-10-01 2007
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We would appear to be in the midst of a full-blown epidemic of graphomania.
Archive 2007-02-01 Ann Althouse 2007
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We would appear to be in the midst of a full-blown epidemic of graphomania.
"The king of content-free reading, the Ur-blogger." Ann Althouse 2007
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This risk is, specifically, the production of a work of such overwhelming eclecticism that it turns abundance into aesthetic bedlam, largesse into graphomania.
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His every leisure moment was devoted to writing, with an output of novels, biographies, and histories that amounted to graphomania.
Great Scot 2004
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His every leisure moment was devoted to writing, with an output of novels, biographies, and histories that amounted to graphomania.
Great Scot 2004
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