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moviemania

moviemania noun: enthusiasm for or obsession with movies.

Noun

moviemania (uncountable)

  1. Enthusiasm for or obsession with movies.
    • They both agree that they were literally forced into all this by the moviemania and supersalesmanship of young Sam Goldwyn — which is the way Goldwyn remembers it too.1947 October 27, Roger Butterfield, “Sam Goldwyn”, in Life, page 127
    • If one walked into New York's largest department stores toward the end of 1929 one could find abundant evidence of the penetration of Hollywood fashions, as well as a virulent form of moviemania.2004, Charles Eckert, “The Carole Lombard in Macy's window”, in Thomas Schatz, editor, Hollywood: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies, Routledge, →ISBN, volume 2, part 6, chapter 29, 183

Origin of moviemania

From movie + -mania.

Questions about moviemania

What does moviemania mean?
Moviemania means enthusiasm for or obsession with movies.
What part of speech is moviemania?
Moviemania is a noun.

Words near moviemania in the dictionary

  1. movielike
  2. movielore
  3. moviemaker
  4. moviemakers
  5. moviemaking
  6. moviemania
  7. movieoke
  8. movieola
  9. movieolas
  10. movies
  11. moviesque

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