Excessive+love
51tulipomania — noun An excessive love for tulips, especially rare or valuable ones. Certainly one of the best illustrations of the fantastic in the motley variety of items that avarice might seize for its own is the tulipomania that swept over the Netherlands… …
52theatromania — noun an excessive love of the theatre See Also: theatrophobia …
53gastrolatry — gluttony; excessive love of food Forms of Worship …
54dote — /doʊt / (say doht) verb (i) (doted, doting) 1. to be weak minded, especially from old age. –phrase 2. dote on (or upon), to bestow excessive love or fondness on. Also, Obsolete, doat. {Middle English doten. Compare Dutch dutten doze, dote} –doter …
55no good deed goes unpunished — Sometimes attributed to Oscar Wilde, but not traced in his writings. 1938 J. AGATE Ego 3 25 Jan. 275 Pavia was in great form to day: ‘Every good deed brings its own punishment.’ 1967 J. ORTON Diaries (1986) 13 June 209 Very good line George came… …
56ISHMAEL — (Heb. יִשְׁמָעֵאל; God hears, wordplays on the name occur in Gen. 16:11–12; 17:20; 21:13, 17), the first son of Abraham, born to him when he was 86 years old. Ishmael s mother was the Egyptian hagar , the maidservant of Sarah (Gen. 16). After… …
57Lovebug — Love bug redirects here. For other uses, see Love bug (disambiguation). Lovebug …
58epistemophilia — Love, especially excessive, of knowledge. [G. episteme, knowledge, + philos, fond] …
59sensuality — Excessive devotion to delights of the senses physical, especially sexual gratification rather than spiritual or intellectual pleasures; voluptuousness; worldliness. Also see beauty, erotica and erotic art, feminism and feminist art, gender… …
60japan — japanner, n. /jeuh pan /, n., adj., v., japanned, japanning. n. 1. any of various hard, durable, black varnishes, originally from Japan, for coating wood, metal, or other surfaces. 2. work varnished and figured in the Japanese manner. 3. Japans,… …
