matrimania

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noun

Excessive enthusiasm for a wedding or weddings in general.

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Meanings

nounmatrimania (uncountable)
  1. uncountableExcessive enthusiasm for a wedding or weddings in general.

    Another bride, another June . . . another season for matrimania.

    2000 June 4, Ellen Tien, “Bridal Pulse”, in The New York Times
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    If it hadn't been for Bonnie's matrimania, in which I was completely complicit, I'm not sure my panic would have been so intense.

    2007, Erin Torneo, Valerie Cabrera Krause, The Bridal Wave: A Survival Guide to the Everyone-I-Know-Is-Getting-Married Years, Villard Books, →ISBN, page 10

    The “matrimania” in our culture that has bred over-the-top weddings, renewals of wedding vows, Valentine's Day splurges, and so forth, […]

    2013, Carlin Flora, Friendfluence: The Surprising Ways Friends Make Us Who We Are, Doubleday, →ISBN

Origin

matri(mony) + -mania

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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