polemomania

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polemomania (uncountable)

  1. (very rare) An obsession with, or craving for, war.
    • 1874, “Mr. Tennyson's Social Philosophy”, in The Fortnightly, volume 21, page 243:
      Indeed, at the thought of the “giant liar,” the poet is seized with a sort of polemomania.

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