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tulipomanias

tulipomanias is the plural of tulipomania.

Meaning of tulipomania

Noun

tulipomania (countable and uncountable, plural tulipomanias)

  1. (uncountable) Hyperenthusiasm for tulips.
  2. Such enthusiasm (or the period of its duration) during the Dutch Golden Age when contract prices for bulbs of the recently introduced tulip reached extraordinarily high levels and then suddenly collapsed (1634–1637); it is widely considered the first speculative bubble (asset bubble).
    • Certainly one of the best illustrations of the fantastic in the motley variety of items that avarice might seize for its own is the tulipomania that swept over the Netherlands in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.1989, Stanford M. Lyman, The Seven Deadly Sins: Society and Evil, page 250

Questions about tulipomanias

What is tulipomanias the plural of?
Tulipomanias is the plural of tulipomania.

Words near tulipomanias in the dictionary

  1. tuliplike
  2. tulipmania
  3. tulipomania
  4. tulipomaniac
  5. tulipomaniacs
  6. tulipomanias
  7. tulips
  8. tuliptree
  9. tuliptrees
  10. tulipwood
  11. tulipwoods

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