graphomania

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The compulsion to write.
  2. Used 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".

Pronunciation

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Word forms

graphomania graphomanias

Etymology

From grapho- + -mania.

Related words

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