Meaning of automaniac | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A person who is self-involved to the point of mental illness.
2. An enthusiast of automobiles and motoring.
3. A road hog.

Equivalents

Examples

“A foolish dissipation, ending in broken rest, depleted purses, broken laws, broken automobiles, and broken bones.[…] Is the cost not heavy enough to bring even an automaniac to his senses?”

“There seems to be need of a term to designate these new terrors of our streets, those speed crazed paranoiacs who are now doing so much to bring the automobile into disrepute.[…] The word “automaniac,” suggested by The Horseless Age, seems quite appropriate[…] Why not adopt the name “automania” for the disease and the automaniac to designate the person afflicted by it?”

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