lithomania

English

Etymology

From litho- +‎ -mania.

Noun

lithomania (uncountable)

1. passion for building
   • 2006, Christopher Haas, Alexandria in late antiquity: topography and social conflict, page 207:

     The patriarch most certainly had a method to his lithomania — nothing less than the complete conversion of Alexandria's urban topography.

Anagrams

• thioaminal