bibliomania
- n preoccupation with the acquisition and possession of books
- The critics sometimes decry the scholars as pedants with bibliomania, while the scholars dismiss the critics as dilettantes with an unprofessional lack of interest in discovering .
- That prayer was not answered last week as the current theatrical bibliomania engulfed Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
- The doctor believed in bibliomania and was sure that prices would rise indefinitely as the supply of available rare books decreased.