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English
Etymology
From grapho- + -mania.
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Noun
graphomania (usually uncountable, plural graphomanias)
- The compulsion to write.
1898, Howard Fertig, transl., Degeneration, London: William Heinemann, translation of original by Max Nordau:Wagner’s graphomania is shown not only by the substance, but also by the outward form of his writings.
- (art) 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 "Entoptic graphomania".
1998, Penelope Rosemont, editor, Surrealist Women: An International Anthology, University of Texas Press, page 113:A devoted explorer of decalcomania, fumage, frottage, collage and other methods of pictorial automatism, Colquhoun invented several magic-inspired techniques of her own, including graphomania, stillomania, and parsemage.
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