Home › Words › C › collectomaniacollectomaniacollectomania means an obsessive desire to collect things.EtymologyFrom collect + -o- + -mania.nounAn obsessive desire to collect things.e.g.“Only one thing could be considered and attributed: Leah's collectomania that grew to fanatic proportions after marriage.” — 1993, Carl Muller, The Jam Fruit Tree, page 126:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.collectionitis 87% match — An obsessive desire to collect things; collectomania. vs collectomania →completism 70% match — A desire to obtain a complete collection of some type of thing. vs collectomania →curiomaniac 66% match — A person who is addicted to collecting curios. vs collectomania →bibliomania 65% match — A passion for owning valuable books. vs collectomania →autographomania 64% match — An enthusiasm for collecting the autographs of famous people. vs collectomania →collecting 63% match — A hobby including seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloging, displaying, storing, and maintaining whatever items are of interest to the individual collector. vs collectomania →bibliomanian 62% match — Exhibiting or relating to bibliomania; having an obsession with collecting books. vs collectomania →completist 62% match — A collector who strives to obtain a complete collection of some type of thing, especially a fan who aims to own or consume the complete output of a particular author, publisher, musician or band. vs collectomania →