graphomania

plural graphomanias

1. uncountableusuallyThe compulsion to write.

   Wagner’s graphomania is shown not only by the substance, but also by the outward form of his writings.

   1898, Howard Fertig, transl., Degeneration, London: William Heinemann, translation of original by Max Nordau

2. uncountableusuallyartUsed as part of the name of various surrealist techniques, e.g., a method in which dots are made at the sites of impurities in a blank sheet of paper, and lines are then made between the dots; see "Entoptic graphomania".

   A devoted explorer of decalcomania, fumage, frottage, collage and other methods of pictorial automatism, Colquhoun invented several magic-inspired techniques of her own, including graphomania, stillomania, and parsemage.

   1998, Penelope Rosemont, editor, Surrealist Women: An International Anthology, University of Texas Press, page 113