typomania

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noun

enthusiasm for typography

Scrabble 16

Meanings

nountypomania (uncountable)
  1. uncountableenthusiasm for typography

    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.

    1986, Small Printer, volume 22, page 35
    1 more example

    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 […]

    1938, New York Times Saturday Review of Books and Art, page 27
  2. uncountableobsession with being published or writing for publication

    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!

    1953, University of California Publications in Modern Philology, page 70
    2 more examples

    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.

    1886, The Disciple, volume 3, page 626

    At the same time a wandering minstrel named W. Dawson found enough encouragement among the starchy old Revolutionary heroes to enable him to publish a "Political and Literary Miscellany" which he called the Intelligencer. It was on the Western Statesman of Lawrenceburg under Gregg that Augustus Jocelyn, Judge David Laird, Thomas Dowling and C. F. Clarkson caught the typomania and carried the dangerous infection to as many Indiana towns.

    1918, A History of Indiana: From 1850 to the present, page 1101

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