Home › Words › T › turriphiliaturriphiliaturriphilia means an (often manic) affection for, love of, or attraction (in any form) towards towers or similarly shaped or designed objects.EtymologyCoined by Theodore Ziolkowski in 1998. From Latin turris (“tower”), from Ancient Greek τύρρις (túrrhis) + -philia, from Ancient Greek φιλία (philía, “love, affection”).nounAn (often manic) affection for, love of, or attraction (in any form) towards towers or similarly shaped or designed objects.The urge or desire to build towers.e.g.“The Guggenheim functions as an American expression of modern turriphilia that serves as both refuge from, and critique of, modern urban space […].” — 2002, “Abstracts”, in American Academy of Religion (AAR), Toronto, Canada: Scholars Press, page 4:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).