Cinephilia

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Enthusiasm for films and the cinema. uncountable

    "Perhaps it is not cinema that has ended but only cinephilia—the name of the very specific kind of love that cinema inspired. Each art breeds its fanatics."

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"Perhaps it is not cinema that has ended but only cinephilia—the name of the very specific kind of love that cinema inspired. Each art breeds its fanatics."

Etymology

From cine- + -philia.

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