graphomania

Noun

graphomania (usually uncountable, plural graphomanias)

1. (usually) The compulsion to write.
   • Wagner’s graphomania is shown not only by the substance, but also by the outward form of his writings.1898, Howard Fertig, transl., Degeneration, London: William Heinemann, translation of original by Max Nordau
2. (usually) Used as part of the name of various surrealist techniques, e.g., a method in which dots are made at the sites of impurities in a blank sheet of paper, and lines are then made between the dots; see "Entoptic graphomania".
   • A devoted explorer of decalcomania, fumage, frottage, collage and other methods of pictorial automatism, Colquhoun invented several magic-inspired techniques of her own, including graphomania, stillomania, and parsemage.1998, Penelope Rosemont, editor, Surrealist Women: An International Anthology, University of Texas Press, page 113