EMPLEOMANIA

PRONUNCIATION: (em-plee-uh/oh-MAY-nee-uh)

MEANING: noun: Mania for holding public office.

ETYMOLOGY: From Spanish empleomanía, from empleo (employment) + -manía (mania). Earliest documented use: 1841.
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HEMPLEOMANIA - irrational preoccupation with the use of marijuana

TEMPLEOMANIA - a fanatical interest in the history and eventual reconstruction of Solomon's twice-destroyed Temple, in Jerusalem

TEMP LEO-MANIA - an unhealthy but self-limited fascination with the question of whether Leo was the first, or the second, or the third King of Armenia eleven hundred (or so) years ago