ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Spanophilia

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Spanophilia is a noun meaning (rare) Love of the rare.

Meaning

(rare) Love of the rare.

Example Sentences

They adored diagnosis, many suffered from spanophilia and most had little interest in time-consuming treatments.
The species of insects which feed on, and therefore cause some degree of harm to, trees are, of course, legion and give ample scope to the spanophilia of enthusiastic forest entomologists.
[T]he best way to do so is to avoid the seven deadly clinical sins defined by Richard Asher: obscurity, cruelty, bad manners, over-specialisation, spanophilia (love of the rare), stupidity, and sloth.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include lusophilia, paraphily, glossophilia, porcophilia, polyphilia, linguaphilia.

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