Melomaniac

Quick meaning: Melomaniac is a noun meaning One with an abnormal fondness of music; a person who loves music.

Meaning

One with an abnormal fondness of music; a person who loves music.

Example Sentences

Of all the animals, the lions were apparently the most susceptible to musical influence, and these royal beasts showed an interest in the sweet tones of the graphophone, akin to that of a human melomaniac.

The truth was that Padre Irene, who was a melomaniac of the first degree and knew French well, had been sent to the theater by Padre Salvi as a sort of religious detective, or so at least he told the persons who recognized him.

A short time before he had gone to Baireuth to hear the Wagnerian operas, and now in the capital of Bavaria he attended the theater of the Residence, where the Mozart festival was celebrated. Jaime was not a melomaniac, but his vagrant existence forced him with the crowd, and his accomplishment as an amateur pianist had led him to make his musical pilgrimage for two consecutive years.

He then amused himself with the fiddle—tried the French horn for a season, varying the matter by a few lessons upon the clarionet and hautboy, and finally improving his powers of endurance by a little practising of the Kent bugle. He at length became a perfect melomaniac, and was always in danger of being indicted as a nuisance by his less scientific neighbours, whose ears were doomed to suffer both by night and by day.

Word Forms

• melomaniacs

Synonyms for melomaniac

Depending on context, synonyms include melomane, melophile, musicophile.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include musicomania, musomania, morphomaniac, morphiomaniac, maniac, melos.

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