Home › Words › E › ergophiliaergophiliaergophilia means the love of work or exercise.EtymologyFrom ergo- + -philia.nounThe love of work or exercise.e.g.“As a rule we do not recognise that this "ergophilia" is a disease.” — 1911, James Johnston Abraham, The Surgeon's Log: Being Impressions of the Far East, page 52:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).