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English
Etymology
From stamp + -o- + -mania.
Noun
stampomania (uncountable)
- A passion for collecting postage stamps.
1865, North Peat:A few years ago grey-haired people as well as little children were seized with the stampomania, and then our most secret drawers, our most private papers, our most loving letters of bygone years were ransacked by our best friends […]
1899, Western Druggist, volume 21, page 81:Briefly, this story tells of the adventures of a commercial traveler afflicted with "stampomania." This amiable and garrulous gentleman falls in with a druggist somewhere in the states and at each recurring trip manages to entangle himself and the weak knight of the pestle in the enchanting and entrancing mysteries of philately […]