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Words made with combining forms

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plutomania

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Words from Yiddish

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PRONUNCIATION:

(ploo-tuh-MAY-nee-uh)

MEANING:

noun: An obsession with money or wealth.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Greek pluto- (wealth) + -mania (excessive enthusiasm or craze). Earliest documented use: 1652.

USAGE:

"Plutomania became rare and almost extinct in the days of the Commonwealth. People lost the habit of valuing possessions over personal relationships."
W. Warren Wagar; A Short History of the Future; University of Chicago Press; 1989.

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