Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Obsession by a word or name; constant involuntary dwelling of the mind upon some one word.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- n. obsession with a particular word which the person uses repeatedly or which intrudes into consciousness
Examples
“We spanking our vicious web site hosting company auditorium austerely a onomatomania ago and are nifedipine to go devoutly into the virgo to reserpine ottoman weaned toxicodendrons to anesthesiology swami an goofy.”
“The Wonder of Whiffling, out on Thursday, is designed to save readers from onomatomania, or vexation at not being able to find the right word.”
“I sincerely hope that you enjoy reading it, and that it saves you both from mulligrubs, depression of spirits, and onomatomania, vexation in having difficulty finding the right word.”
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“Rather it turned him into a mafflard (a stuttering or blundering fool), bedevilled by onomatomania (vexation at having difficulty in finding the right word).”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘onomatomania’.
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Seven-syllable English Words
A list of English words containing seven syllables, beginning, somewhat ironically, with inapplicability, since a fair number of these words one would never use.
I'm tagging all words ...inapplicability, unsatisfactorily, heterogeneity, disintermediation, antiglobalization, telecommunication, interdisciplinary, meteorological, socioeconomic, intelligibility, autobiographical, industrialization and 423 more...
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-mania
mental disorder; excessive craving
kleptomania, bibliomania, manic, Beatlemania, pyromania, megalomania, ablutomania, aboulomania, agromania, andromania, anglomania, anthomania and 122 more...
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Word Words
This used to be my nym list, but there are so many words about words, I think it's time to expand and open.
acronym, antonym, aptronym, autoantonym, autonym, bacronym, capitonym, contranym, contronym, eponym, exonym, heteronym and 120 more...
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phrontistery - o
from phrontistery.info
ozostomia, ozoniferous, oxytone, oxytocic, oxyphonia, oxymoron, oxygeusia, oxyblepsia, oxyacanthous, oxter, oxyacaesthesia, owling and 504 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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cicatrix
scar tissue
minatory, naira, Cluniac, embracive, prolix, hierophant, timorous, adduce, veracious, dysphoric, sang-froid, vitiate and 503 more...
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amagnano's Words
truculent, churlish, antipathy, sociopathy, loquacious, disheveled, pouilly-fuisse, enamored, marked, assuage, ascetic, pagan and 190 more...
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Sound or sequence
dulcimer, borborygmi, ecchymosis, scrivener, fustilugs, zarf, bawdyhouse, googleable, archfiend, gymkhana, cuckoopint, pilpul and 104 more...
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[Open] Words about Words
Pachysandra also has an open “Words about Words” list.* (There are over a dozen other identically named lists, but they’re all closed.)
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Only on Wordie/Wordnik
Okay, mostly on Wordie. But it's more fun here anyway.
brannock device, polari, stupidhead, in toto, nounal, flustrated, stuffocate, firkin, full-assed, placeholder name, pro-text, cheesequake and 408 more...
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Amusing words
interesting words
bonce, furcate, tapioca, tillage, desalinate, garish, litmus, roadhog, azoic, haberdasher, imbroglio, polliwog and 802 more...
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grassdog's Words
schadenfreude, sanguine, nefarious, verisimilitude, antediluvian, salacious, obfuscate, plethora, cacophony, defenestration, vacillate, blasphemy and 478 more...
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persnickety parlance
behoove, ebullient, insouciant, insipient, froth, quandary, quixotic, tendril, maktub, furrow, furl, anastrophe and 1076 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3250 more...
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jmjarmstrong's list
Words that I used to know.
geloscopy, hunker, willy nilly, harum scarum, whacko, meh, nork, misunderestimate, atrabiliousness, luftmensch, auxanometer, hyperhedonia and 1948 more...
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Delirium's Words
milquetoast, folderol, discombobulate, persnickety, piffle, curmudgeon, suckitude, smithereens, cantankerous, shenanigans, murder, morningstar and 59 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for onomatomania.

marky You were fired :( ouch happened to me last year too. sry 2 hear that. hopefully you're ok! Feb 23, 2010
bilby Funny. I was fired too. Feb 23, 2010
marky Bilby have you seen this video about the guy who gets fired from Microsoft by Steve Ballmer for not saying Bing right?
The 'Bing!' Incident Feb 23, 2010
bilby Bing! Feb 23, 2010
kaitman I had no idea there was a word for this. <3 Feb 23, 2010
Dorthy Manel Colloquial. Kuh Low kii ul.
Dec 8, 2009
super-kawy Vexation at having difficulty in finding the right word. May 1, 2009
jmjarmstrong JM knows there is a word for onomatomania but just can’t recall it Mar 25, 2009
mollusque Bovilexia is proving to be another example. Feb 20, 2008
yarb Islets of Langerhans. Islets of Langerhans. Islets of Langerhans. Feb 20, 2008
reesetee Plinth. Thrip. Plinth. Thrip. Plinth. Thrip. Plinth. Thrip. Feb 20, 2008
sionnach mulct. mulct. mulct. mulct. mulcty mc mulcterson. Feb 20, 2008
mollusque Plinth. Plinth, plinth, plinth. Feb 20, 2008
kenspeckle I have this for kenspeckle. Feb 17, 2007