Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who is constantly writing, either letters to friends or to the newspapers, or stories and works of fiction, driven thereto either by an exaggerated idea of the importance of what he writes or by an insane impulse.

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Examples

  • For much of his life, in fact, Göll was an obsessive writer, a "graphomaniac," to use Mr. Fritzsche's term.

    The Story Of a Lifetime Ian Brunskill 2011

  • Or to control the ever-threatening information-flood while continuing to function—the way a graphomaniac might compile endless tables of statistics to ward off the dreadful alternative.

    A Cure for Head-Exploding Brilliance James Campbell 2011

  • You have to be a graphomaniac to spend hours on a manuscript and then turn, for relaxation, to letters.

    Last letters from a master Jonathan Yardley 2010

  • You have to be a graphomaniac to spend hours on a manuscript and then turn, for relaxation, to letters.

    Last letters from a master Jonathan Yardley 2010

  • I'd like to thank all of my blogging brethren & sisteren for tolerating me posting up eleventy billion jpegs thereby freezing your Blackberries and writing all the goddamn time like a graphomaniac madman anyone who follows me on Twitter can attest to that.

    The Grand Finale © N.W.A. Dart Adams 2010

  • I am Jonkil Calembour, emperor of the pish-tosh and belly-wobble graphomaniac demiurge!

    Excerpt from Urdoxa 2.0 2010

  • I'd like to thank all of my blogging brethren & sisteren for tolerating me posting up eleventy billion jpegs thereby freezing your Blackberries and writing all the goddamn time like a graphomaniac madman anyone who follows me on Twitter can attest to that.

    Archive 2010-01-01 Dart Adams 2010

  • I'd like to thank all of my blogging brethren & sisteren for tolerating me posting up eleventy billion jpegs and freezing your Blackberries and writing all the goddamn time like a graphomaniac madman anyone who follows me on Twitter can attest to that.

    Dart Adams presents Thoughts Of A Subject, Verb & Predicate Felon 3 Dart Adams 2009

  • A nominee, even one who has never been a judge, doesn't have to be a graphomaniac, but Kagan's publications consist largely of cautious descriptions and categorizations of current legal doctrines.

    Propeller Most Popular Stories 2010

  • A nominee, even one who has never been a judge, doesn't have to be a graphomaniac, but Kagan's publications consist largely of cautious descriptions and categorizations of current legal doctrines.

    Propeller Most Popular Stories 2010

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