ergophilia

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noun

The love of work or exercise.

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Meanings

nounergophilia (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe love of work or exercise.

    As a rule we do not recognise that this "ergophilia" is a disease.

    1911, James Johnston Abraham, The Surgeon's Log: Being Impressions of the Far East, page 52
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    I don't like the ergophilia, bureaucratitis, technomania and war fever that I'm surrounded by, yet these things don't actually get labelled as sicknesses.

    2004, Colin Feltham, Problems Are Us: Or Is It Just Me?, →ISBN, page 234

Origin

From ergo- + -philia.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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Cite this entry
APA

ergophilia. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ergophilia

MLA

“ergophilia.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ergophilia. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “ergophilia,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ergophilia.

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