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Feb 4, 2025

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with Anu Garg

melomania

PRONUNCIATION:

(mel-uh-MAY-nee-uh)

MEANING:

noun: An inordinate enthusiasm for music.

ETYMOLOGY:

From French melo- (music), from Ancient Greek melos (song) + -mania (excessive enthusiasm or craze). Earliest documented use: 1842.

USAGE:

“[Babylon] ... is home to some very serious and sophisticated music making. Indeed, the whole neighborhood seems to be gripped by melomania.”
John Ash; Celebration: Istanbul; The New York Times Magazine; Sep 16, 2001.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience. -Hartley Shawcross, barrister, politician, and prosecutor at the Nuremberg War Crimes tribunal (4 Feb 1902-2003)

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