graphomania
English
Etymology
grapho- + -mania
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌɡɹæfɵˈmeɪni.ə/
- Rhymes: -eɪniə
Noun
graphomania (usually uncountable, plural graphomanias)
- The compulsion to write.
- (art) Used as part of the name of various surrealist techniques, e.g., a method in which dots are made at the sites of impurities in a blank sheet of paper, and lines are then made between the dots; see "Entoptic graphomania".
- 1998 Penelope Rosemont (editor), Surrealist Women: An International Anthology, page 113, University of Texas Press
- A devoted explorer of decalcomania, fumage, frottage, collage and other methods of pictorial automatism, Colquhoun invented several magic-inspired techniques of her own, including graphomania, stillomania, and parsemage.
- 1998 Penelope Rosemont (editor), Surrealist Women: An International Anthology, page 113, University of Texas Press