Pokémania
Pokémania noun: passion for the Pokémon media franchise.
Noun
Pokémania (uncountable)
- Passion for the Pokémon media franchise.
- Teachers, who had vivid memories of the temporary insanity of POGS a few years earlier, said they'd never seen a craze to rival Pokémania.2001, Kathleen McDonnell, Honey, We Lost the Kids: Re-thinking Childhood in the Multimedia Age, Second Story Press, →ISBN, page 97
- It is one that reflects what I found to be the general attitude of American adults regarding the Pokémania that captivated U.S. youth for at least two years: that, though a popular fad of immense proportions, Pokémon (and through it Japan) influenced American youth in terms of their goals, actions...2008, Anne Allison, “The Attractions of the J-Wave for American Youth”, in Yasushi Watanabe, David L. McConnell, editors, Soft Power Superpowers: Cultural and National Assets of Japan and the United...
Origin of Pokémania
From Poké- + -mania.
Questions about Pokémania
- What does Pokémania mean?
- Pokémania means passion for the Pokémon media franchise.
- What part of speech is Pokémania?
- Pokémania is a noun.
Words near Pokémania in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: Pokémania (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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