Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Characteristic of or characterized by or noted for bibliomania: Describes a person, behavior, or feeling that shows an obsessive enthusiasm for collecting and possessing books, often to an extreme or unhealthy degree.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • His bibliomaniacal tendencies led him to fill every room in his house with towering stacks of books.
  • The collector's bibliomaniacal passion was evident in her meticulous cataloging of thousands of first editions.

Advanced Usage

• "bibliomaniacal zeal": An intense, obsessive enthusiasm for acquiring books.
  • He pursued rare manuscripts with a bibliomaniacal zeal that knew no bounds.
• "bibliomaniacal collector": A collector whose approach to acquiring books is obsessive.
  • The auction was attended by every bibliomaniacal collector in the country.

Variants and Related Words

• Bibliomania (n): The obsessive-compulsive disorder characterized by the collecting or hoarding of books to the point where social relations or health are damaged.
  • His bibliomania left him with a vast library but very little space to live.
• Bibliomaniac (n): A person who suffers from or is characterized by bibliomania.
  • The true bibliomaniac values the book as an object, sometimes more than its content.

Synonyms

• Book-mad: (Archaic) Insanely fond of books.
• Bibliophilic: Having a strong love of books (though this typically lacks the connotation of unhealthy obsession present in 'bibliomaniacal').

Related Phrases

• To have a bibliomaniacal streak: To exhibit a tendency toward obsessive book collecting.
  • While not a full-blown collector, he certainly has a bibliomaniacal streak when it comes to antique maps.

Related Idioms

• None commonly associated directly with "bibliomaniacal." The concept is often expressed through descriptions of behavior (e.g., ) rather than a fixed idiom.

Adjective

1. characteristic of or characterized by or noted for bibliomania