hylomania

Etymology

From hylo- + -mania.

hylomania means an obsession with matter or philosophical materialism. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.

Why “hylomania” is a great word

HYLOMANIA — [Noun] An excessive preoccupation with or obsession over matter or material substance, often as a philosophical fixation. From the Greek hylo- (ὕλη, meaning "matter" or "wood") and -mania (μανία, meaning "madness" or "frenzy"). Unlike materialism, a dispassionate doctrine, or avarice, a greed for possession, hylomania is a feverish, tactile fixation on the sheer *thereness* of substance itself. It is the frantic cataloging of textures, the hours spent deciphering the grain in oak as if it were a map, the overwhelming suspicion that truth is locked in the cold conductivity of copper wire—a melancholic madness for the world's stubborn density, where all transcendence feels like a trick of the light on matter.

noun

An obsession with matter or philosophical materialism.