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gourmania

gourmania noun: enthusiasm for preparing and/or eating good food.

Noun

gourmania (uncountable)

  1. Enthusiasm for preparing and/or eating good food.
    • Sliced any way, however, gourmania means big business.1970, Business Week, numbers 2114-2121, page 284
    • Writer Judith Moore remembers "gourmania" sweeping her Oregon college town in the 1970s as adventurous gourmets strove to outdo each other with Greek or Provençal menus, complete with home-butchered rabbit.2009 October 6, Amy Pataki, “Foodies mourning Gourmet”, in Toronto Star

Origin of gourmania

Blend of gourmet + mania.

Questions about gourmania

What does gourmania mean?
Gourmania means enthusiasm for preparing and/or eating good food.
What part of speech is gourmania?
Gourmania is a noun.

Words near gourmania in the dictionary

  1. gourmandizes
  2. gourmandizing
  3. gourmandizings
  4. gourmandry
  5. gourmands
  6. gourmania
  7. Gourmantché
  8. gourmet
  9. gourmetish
  10. gourmetism
  11. gourmetlike

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