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matrimania

matrimania noun: excessive enthusiasm for a wedding or weddings in general.

Noun

matrimania (uncountable)

  1. Excessive enthusiasm for a wedding or weddings in general.
    • Another bride, another June . . . another season for matrimania.2000 June 4, Ellen Tien, “Bridal Pulse”, in The New York Times
    • If it hadn't been for Bonnie's matrimania, in which I was completely complicit, I'm not sure my panic would have been so intense.2007, Erin Torneo, Valerie Cabrera Krause, The Bridal Wave: A Survival Guide to the Everyone-I-Know-Is-Getting-Married Years, Villard Books, →ISBN, page 10

Origin of matrimania

matri(mony) + -mania

Questions about matrimania

What does matrimania mean?
Matrimania means excessive enthusiasm for a wedding or weddings in general.
What part of speech is matrimania?
Matrimania is a noun.

Words near matrimania in the dictionary

  1. matrilocal
  2. matrilocality
  3. matrilocally
  4. matrilysin
  5. matrilysins
  6. matrimania
  7. matrimoieties
  8. matrimoiety
  9. matrimoine
  10. matrimonial
  11. matrimonial cake

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