Bibliomaniac
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A person who is obsessed with owning books, especially valuable ones.
"A bad example often finds imitators, and every season there crop up for public sale one or two such collections formed by bibliomaniacs who, although calling themselves bibliophiles, ought really to be ranked among the worst enemies of books."
Example
More examples"A bad example often finds imitators, and every season there crop up for public sale one or two such collections formed by bibliomaniacs who, although calling themselves bibliophiles, ought really to be ranked among the worst enemies of books."
Etymology
From biblio- + -maniac.
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