spanophilia means love of the rare. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Why “spanophilia” is a great word
SPANOPHILIA — [Noun] An attraction to or love of things that are rare. From Ancient Greek σπανός (spanos, "rare, scarce") + -philia ("love, attraction"). Unlike bibliophilia, which is a specific passion for books, or nostalgia, a sentimental longing for the past, spanophilia fixates on the condition of scarcity itself. It is the collector's thrill for a misprinted coin, the reverence for the last recording of a vanished bird's call, and the quiet awe before a single wildflower in a vast, uniform field—a devotion that finds its object not merely in beauty, but in the fragile silence of the almost-vanished.
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- Love of the rare.“The species of insects which feed on, and therefore cause some degree of harm to, trees are, of course, legion and give ample scope to the spanophilia of enthusiastic forest entomologists.”