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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The condition of a pistil in which the ovaries are more or less completely united and the respective styles and stigmata remain free.
  • noun A form of insanity in which the sufferer often proposes marriage, despite impossible conditions.

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  • noun An obsessive desire for making bizarre marriage proposals.

Etymologies

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From gamo- +‎ -mania.

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  • 1. In psychiatry, a morbid desire to marry.

    2. An urge to make outrageous or extravagant proposals of marriage.

    December 15, 2007

  • Sionnach, there's something I've been wanting to ask you ...

    November 15, 2008

  • I thought you had gadomania, bilby.

    November 16, 2008

  • Gadomania... a passion for cods?

    November 16, 2008

  • Monogamy suited Prince Rainier

    But others have ways that are zanier.

    Tommy Manville, though rich,

    Had a marital itch

    That amounted to sheer gamomania.

    November 28, 2015