Meanings
- rareuncountableLove of the rare.
They adored diagnosis, many suffered from spanophilia and most had little interest in time-consuming treatments.
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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.
1986, David Jenkins, Trees and wildlife in the Scottish Uplands, page 108[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.
2013, Michael O'Donnell, The Barefaced Doctor, page 392
Origin
- Ancient Greekσπᾰνός“rare”
- Englishspanophilia
From Ancient Greek σπᾰνός (spănós, “rare”) + -philia.
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