automania
automania noun: an enthusiasm for motor vehicles and motoring.
Noun
automania (uncountable)
- An enthusiasm for motor vehicles and motoring.
- 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?1902, “The Automaniac”, in Massachusetts Medical Journal, page 551
- 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.1906 May, “Farmers’ problems”, in Farm Journal, page 178
- Synonyms:
- motormania
Synonyms of automania
Origin of automania
From auto + -mania. Attested from the 20th century. Compare slightly earlier automaniac.
Questions about automania
- What does automania mean?
- Automania means an enthusiasm for motor vehicles and motoring.
- What part of speech is automania?
- Automania is a noun.
Words near automania in the dictionary
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