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cinephilia

cinephilia noun: enthusiasm for films and the cinema.

Noun

cinephilia (uncountable)

  1. Enthusiasm for films and the cinema.
    • Perhaps it is not cinema that has ended but only cinephilia—the name of the very specific kind of love that cinema inspired. Each art breeds its fanatics.1996 February 25, Susan Sontag, “The Decay of Cinema”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
    • Loudly and proudly declaring your love of Letterboxd has become a way of demonstrating your superior cinephilia.2024 February 29, Jack King, “Why everyone you know is suddenly a Letterboxd head”, in GQ
    Antonyms:
    cinephobia

Antonyms of cinephilia

Origin of cinephilia

From cine- + -philia.

Questions about cinephilia

What does cinephilia mean?
Cinephilia means enthusiasm for films and the cinema.
What part of speech is cinephilia?
Cinephilia is a noun.

Words near cinephilia in the dictionary

  1. cinepazet
  2. cinepazide
  3. cinephagic
  4. cinephile
  5. cinephiles
  6. cinephilia
  7. cinephilias
  8. cinephilic
  9. cinephobe
  10. cinephobia
  11. cinephotographer

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