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cinephagic

cinephagic adjective: that voraciously consumes cinema, with implied negative perception of such habits.

Adjective

cinephagic (not comparable)

  1. That voraciously consumes cinema, with implied negative perception of such habits
    • In this way, Migrating Forms, formerly the New York Underground Film Festival, allows itself considerable experimental drift, programming an impressively broad range of contemporary avant-garde films, vintage video art, schlocky revivals and remixes, and esoterica to satiate the rarest of...2011 June 10, Genevieve Yue, “Will the Circle Be Unbroken? Third Annual Migrating Forms Festival at New York’s Anthology Film Archives”, in Reverse Shot, Museum of the Moving Image, archived from the...
    • The implication of their overreactions is clear: a defense of laziness, convenience, and (cinephagic) gluttony—-things they probably don’t like in other people.2025 December 2, A. S. Hamrah, “A Total Breakdown of All the Easter Eggs”, in The New York Review of Books, archived from the original on 02 Dec 2025

Origin of cinephagic

From cine- + -phagic.

Questions about cinephagic

What does cinephagic mean?
Cinephagic means that voraciously consumes cinema, with implied negative perception of such habits.
What part of speech is cinephagic?
Cinephagic is an adjective.

Words near cinephagic in the dictionary

  1. cineole
  2. cineoles
  3. cineols
  4. cinepazet
  5. cinepazide
  6. cinephagic
  7. cinephile
  8. cinephiles
  9. cinephilia
  10. cinephilias
  11. cinephilic

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