collectomania

English

Etymology

From collect +‎ -o- +‎ -mania.

Noun

collectomania (uncountable)

1. An obsessive desire to collect things.
   • 1993, Carl Muller, The Jam Fruit Tree, page 126:

     Only one thing could be considered and attributed: Leah's collectomania that grew to fanatic proportions after marriage.

   • 1994, Irene Gammel, Sexualizing Power in Naturalism, page 181:

     Dreiser 's naturalism textually mimics capitalism's collectomania and fetishistic obsession with material objects and facts [...].

   • 2007, Anna Dezeuze, “Unpacking Joseph Cornell”, in Joseph Cornell: Opening The Box, page 223:

     The apparent absence of selection criteria in Warhol's collectomania was also a characteristic of 'Raid the Icebox I', the touring show that he curated in 1969 at the Institute for the Arts in Houston [...].

Synonyms

• collectionitis