Typomania

Quick meaning: Typomania is a noun meaning enthusiasm for typography.

Meaning

enthusiasm for typography.

More Meanings

1. obsession with being published or writing for publication

Example Sentences

When typomania strikes, sooner or later the victim is seized with an irresistible urge to print a display of the types he holds — perhaps on a single sheet, perhaps in a series of typecards.

But all this is of no avail: my typomania is boundless! I have started on my way and I must proceed forward, willy-nilly. The second part of my Collection must be published, even if I have to go to Kamchatka!

One of the most virulent cases of typomania was that of the man who, some ten years ago, inveigled his fiancee to go to Washington to be married in the Bureau of Printing and Engraving because he considered it the most appropriate setting […]

We have all smiled over the account of how Dr. Holland, on seeing his first printed poem in the Youth's Companion, "walked on air;" and all those who have ever been afflicted with even the mildest form of that disease which Dr. Holland has characterized as "typomania," have slyly hugged their mental selves on remembering how similar their own experiences have been.

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