automania

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An enthusiasm for motor vehicles and motoring. US,uncountable
    — There seems to be need of a term to designate these new terrors of our streets, those speed crazed paranoiacs who are now doing so much to bring the automobile into disrepute.[…] Why not adopt the name “automania” for the disease and the automaniac to designate the person afflicted by it?

词源

From auto + -mania. Attested from the 20th century. Compare slightly earlier automaniac.
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