spanophilia

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σπᾰνός (spanós, “rare”) +‎ -philia.

Noun

spanophilia (uncountable)

1. (rare) Love of the rare.
   • 1986, David Jenkins, Trees and wildlife in the Scottish Uplands, page 108:

     The species of insects which feed on, and therefore cause some degree of harm to, trees are, of course, legion and give ample scope to the spanophilia of enthusiastic forest entomologists.

   • 2013, Michael O'Donnell, The Barefaced Doctor, page 392:

     [T]he best way to do so is to avoid the seven deadly clinical sins defined by Richard Asher: obscurity, cruelty, bad manners, over-specialisation, spanophilia (love of the rare), stupidity, and sloth.

   • 2016, Hsin Fen Chien, Orlando Graziani Povoas Barsottini, Movement Disorders Rehabilitation, →ISBN:

     They adored diagnosis, many suffered from spanophilia and most had little interest in time-consuming treatments.