turriphilia

Noun

turriphilia (uncountable)

1. An (often manic) affection for, love of, or attraction (in any form) towards towers or similarly shaped or designed objects.
   • Whether these writers share any characteristics that might account for their common turriphilia, and whether by moving into towers they reified an image already prevalent in their works or, alternatively, by writing about towers internalized the reality of their lives—these are some of the...1998, Theodore Ziolkowski, View from the Tower: Origins of an Antimodernist Image, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 6
   • Theodore Ziolkowski has extensively explored the conservative cultural response to modernity and the Great War, and in this new study he takes it down an arresting byway: turriphilia, or the mania for towers.1998, Jeffers Studies, volume 2, Long Beach, CA: California State University, page 7
2. The urge or desire to build towers.
   • The Guggenheim functions as an American expression of modern turriphilia that serves as both refuge from, and critique of, modern urban space […].2002, “Abstracts”, in American Academy of Religion (AAR), Toronto, Canada: Scholars Press, page 4
   • [Horace Walpole's] contributions to culture are many: he wrote a gothic novel called "The Castle of Otranto", he authored an important text on garden design, he coined the term serendipity […], and he was a true icon of turriphilia.2004, Wilfried Hou Je Bek, “Do-It-Yourself Urbanism: Psychogeography, Generosity, Serendipity and Turriphilia”, in Bart Lootsma, Marie-Ange Brayer, Christelle Lecoeur, Cathy Larque, editors, Archilab...