parkomania
English
Noun
parkomania (uncountable)
- Excessive or unreasonable interest in parks, gardens, and landscaping.
- Interest in parks and gardens; a fashion for lawns and parks.
- 1856, Andrew Jackson Downing, “Downing's letters”, in The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste, page 75:
- He is just about sailing for Europe, with all his family, for a two years’ tour, and with Parkomania especially in his mind. There is no man of all my acquaintance so thoroughly prepared to see and enjoy the finest English places. Rare trees are his special hobby.
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