matrimania

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

matri(mony) + -mania

Noun[edit]

matrimania (uncountable)

  1. Excessive enthusiasm for a wedding or weddings in general.
    • 2000 June 4, Ellen Tien, “Bridal Pulse”, in The New York Times:
      Another bride, another June . . . another season for matrimania.
    • 2007, Erin Torneo, Valerie Cabrera Krause, The Bridal Wave: A Survival Guide to the Everyone-I-Know-Is-Getting-Married Years, Villard Books, →ISBN, page 10:
      If it hadn't been for Bonnie's matrimania, in which I was completely complicit, I'm not sure my panic would have been so intense.
    • 2013, Carlin Flora, Friendfluence: The Surprising Ways Friends Make Us Who We Are[1], Doubleday, →ISBN:
      The “matrimania” in our culture that has bred over-the-top weddings, renewals of wedding vows, Valentine's Day splurges, and so forth, []