Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The condition of a pistil in which the ovaries are more or less completely united and the respective styles and stigmata remain free.
- noun A form of insanity in which the sufferer often proposes marriage, despite impossible conditions.
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- noun An obsessive desire for making bizarre marriage
proposals .
Etymologies
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From gamo- + -mania.
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sionnach commented on the word gamomania
1. In psychiatry, a morbid desire to marry.
2. An urge to make outrageous or extravagant proposals of marriage.
December 15, 2007
bilby commented on the word gamomania
Sionnach, there's something I've been wanting to ask you ...
November 15, 2008
mollusque commented on the word gamomania
I thought you had gadomania, bilby.
November 16, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word gamomania
Gadomania... a passion for cods?
November 16, 2008
qms commented on the word gamomania
Monogamy suited Prince Rainier
But others have ways that are zanier.
Tommy Manville, though rich,
Had a marital itch
That amounted to sheer gamomania.
November 28, 2015