automania
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See also: automanią
English
Etymology
From auto + -mania.[1] Attested from the 20th century. Compare slightly earlier automaniac.
Pronunciation
Noun
automania (uncountable)
- (US) An enthusiasm for motor vehicles and motoring.
- Synonym: motormania
- 1902, “The Automaniac”, in Massachusetts Medical Journal, page 551:
- There seems to be need of a term to designate these new terrors of our streets, those speed crazed paranoiacs who are now doing so much to bring the automobile into disrepute. […] Why not adopt the name “automania” for the disease and the automaniac to designate the person afflicted by it?
- 1906 May, “Farmers’ problems”, in Farm Journal, page 178:
- The fact is, some of these people are seized with automania, and if they could not go fast, they would not care to go at all. Automania is the feverish desire to move at the greatest rate of speed of which the motor is capable, with no regard for the life of bipeds or quadrupeds.
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References
- ^ “automania, n.2”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, March 2018.
Polish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
automania f
Declension
Declension of automania
Derived terms
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