statuomania
statuomania noun: an obsession with putting up statues, especially with reference to France.
Noun
statuomania (uncountable)
- An obsession with putting up statues, especially with reference to France.
- To carry this out would not be difficult with a people so deeply imbued with veneration for the dead, amongst whom Positivism seeks to replace the forms of religious worship by honours rendered to the great, and with whom for some time past the rage for statues, now being erected all over France...1882, “Contemporary Life and Thought in France”, in The Contemporary Review, July-December 1882 edition, volume 42, London: Ibister and Company Limited, translation of original by Gabriel Monod...
- The major characteristic of French ‘statuomania’ was its democracy, anticipating that of the war memorials after 1914-18.1983, Eric Hobsbawm, The Invention of Tradition
Origin of statuomania
From statue + -o- + -mania.
Questions about statuomania
- What does statuomania mean?
- Statuomania means an obsession with putting up statues, especially with reference to France.
- What part of speech is statuomania?
- Statuomania is a noun.
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