chocomania

English

Etymology

From choco +‎ -mania.

Noun

chocomania (uncountable)

1. (informal) Enthusiasm for and/or obsession with chocolate.

   Synonym: chocoholism

   • 1983, Betty Fussell, Masters of American Cookery‎^[1], page 367:

     Cookbooks, cooking classes, round-the-world tours devoted exclusively to chocolate do not begin to exhaust our chocomania.

   • 2008, Sverre Sætre, Chocolate: A New Insight into the World of Chocolate‎^[2], page 7:

     Sverre’s chocomania is really all about transforming the true, pure, delicious taste of cocoa beans into smooth velvet in the mouth.

   • 2017, Megan Giller, Bean-to-Bar Chocolate: America's Craft Chocolate Revolution‎^[3], page 208:

     As chocomania swept the globe, European aristocrats brought enslaved Africans to Central America, South America, and the Caribbean to work cacao plantations.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:chocomania.

Related terms

• chocomaniac