graphomaniac

English

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -eɪniæk

Noun

graphomaniac (plural graphomaniacs)

  1. A compulsive writer.
    • 1898, Howard Fertig, transl., Degeneration[1], London: William Heinemann, translation of Entartung by Max Nordau:
      Both delighted in eccentricities of costume and modes of life, and Barbey had the habit of graphomaniacs, which we know already, of writing his letters and his literary works with different coloured inks.

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