agromania

English

Etymology

From agro- +‎ -mania.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /aɡɹə(ʊ)ˈmeɪnɪə/

Noun

agromania (uncountable)

1. An intense interest in agriculture.
   • 1918, Steven L. Kaplan, Provisioning Paris, page 413:

     These were the years of agromania, the efflorescence of interest in all aspects of the rural economy – a passion that was easy to caricature but that betrayed a genuine shift in notions of political economy and priorities and values as well as in loftier and more superficial forms of sensibility.

   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, pages 169–70:

     A wave of ‘agromania’ was triggered by the sudden appearance in the immediate aftermath of the peace of Aix-la-Chapelle of numerous tracts on improving farming – after more than a century of conspicuous silence on this front.

Antonyms

• agrophobia