ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Operaphile

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Operaphile is a noun meaning One who enthusiastically enjoys opera.

Meaning

One who enthusiastically enjoys opera.

Example Sentences

Even a cinemaphobe operaphile ought to score twenty or more. .
Although Costa retained his contacts with the royal family, Gye was able to develop his own close relationship with the operaphile Prince of Wales, for whose mistress Pauline Lucca he occasionally rescheduled the programme.
For an operaphile, this meaning derives from the subjectivity of the resonance between vocal jouissance and the unconscious, that is, the preverbal bond with the mother, separation and individuation from this first Other, and the acquisition of language and meaning.

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Related Words

Related dictionary entries include operaphobe, opiophile, erotophonophile, oenophilist, paraphilic, panphiliac.

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