agromaniaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /aɡɹə(ʊ)ˈmeɪnɪə/

名詞

agromania (uncountable)

1. An intense interest in agriculture.
   • 1918, Steven L. Kaplan, Provisioning Paris, p. 413^[1]:

     These were the years of agromania, the efflorescence of interest in all aspects of the rural economy – a passion that was easy to caricature but that betrayed a genuine shift in notions of political economy and priorities and values as well as in loftier and more superficial forms of sensibility.

   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 169-70:

     A wave of ‘agromania’ was triggered by the sudden appearance in the immediate aftermath of the peace of Aix-la-Chapelle of numerous tracts on improving farming – after more than a century of conspicuous silence on this front.

反意語

• agrophobia