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Lottery vs Lottomania - What's the difference?

lottery | lottomania |

As nouns the difference between lottery and lottomania

is that lottery is a scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance, especially a gaming scheme in which one or more tickets bearing particular numbers draw prizes, the other tickets are blanks while lottomania is enthusiasm for playing the lottery.

lottery

English

(wikipedia lottery)

Noun

(lotteries)
  • A scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance, especially a gaming scheme in which one or more tickets bearing particular numbers draw prizes, the other tickets are blanks.
  • (figuratively) An affair of chance.
  • (obsolete, Shakespeare) Allotment; a thing allotted.

    • lottomania

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (informal) Enthusiasm for playing the lottery.
  • * 1992 , Forbes (volume 149, issues 5-9)
    • The lottomania (Forbes , Mar. 6, 1989) that sent state lottery revenues to more than $20 billion last year has finally run out of steam. Revenue gains are slackening off...
  • * 1994 , Linda Schinke-Llano, Time: Reaching for Tomorrow
    • As lottomania has swept the nation, one result is an entirely new social stratum of millionaires...