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spanophilia

spanophilia noun: love of the rare.

Noun

spanophilia (uncountable)

  1. (rare) Love of the rare.
    • The species of insects which feed on, and therefore cause some degree of harm to, trees are, of course, legion and give ample scope to the spanophilia of enthusiastic forest entomologists.1986, David Jenkins, Trees and wildlife in the Scottish Uplands, page 108
    • [T]he best way to do so is to avoid the seven deadly clinical sins defined by Richard Asher: obscurity, cruelty, bad manners, over-specialisation, spanophilia (love of the rare), stupidity, and sloth.2013, Michael O'Donnell, The Barefaced Doctor, page 392

Origin of spanophilia

From Ancient Greek σπᾰνός (spănós, “rare”) + -philia.

Questions about spanophilia

What does spanophilia mean?
Spanophilia means love of the rare.
What part of speech is spanophilia?
Spanophilia is a noun.

Words near spanophilia in the dictionary

  1. spanning trees
  2. spannings
  3. Spano
  4. spanokopita
  5. spanokopitas
  6. spanophilia
  7. Spanos
  8. spans
  9. spans and snops
  10. spanspek
  11. spanspeks

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