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gourmania

noun

Etymology

Blend of gourmet + mania.

  1. derived from μανία
  2. borrowed from mania
  3. compounded as gourmania — “gourmet + mania”

Definitions

  1. Enthusiasm for preparing and/or eating good food.

    • Sliced any way, however, gourmania means big business.
    • Writer Judith Moore remembers "gourmania" sweeping her Oregon college town in the 1970s as adventurous gourmets strove to outdo each other with Greek or Provençal menus, complete with home-butchered rabbit.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA