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Melomaniac vs Melophile - What's the difference?

melomaniac | melophile |

As nouns the difference between melophile and melomaniac

is that melophile is one who loves music while melomaniac is one with an abnormal fondness of music.

melomaniac

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One with an abnormal fondness of music.
  • * 1910 , Robert Means Lawrence, Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery , Houghton Mifflin Company (1910), page 176:
    • Of all the animals, the lions were apparently the most susceptible to musical influence, and these royal beasts showed an interest in the sweet tones of the graphophone, akin to that of a human melomaniac .

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    melophile

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who loves music.

    • Related terms

    * melophilia