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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

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...