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Dec 24, 2009 This week's theme Fear and desire This week's words agoraphobia dipsomania astraphobia onomatomania acrophobia A Word A Day the book "Delightful." -The New York Times Buy Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg onomatomania PRONUNCIATION: (on-uh-mat-uh-MAY-nee-uh) MEANING: noun: An obsession with particular words or names and desire to recall or repeat them. ETYMOLOGY: Via Latin, from Greek onoma (name) + -mania (excessive enthusiasm or craze). USAGE: "Every time Ammon Shea came across an interesting word, he jotted it down, desperate to avoid onomatomania." Nicole Martin; The Last Word; The Daily Telegraph (London, UK); Oct 4, 2008. Explore "onomatomania" in the Visual Thesaurus. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Not far from the invention of fire must rank the invention of doubt. -Thomas Henry Huxley, biologist (1825-1895)

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