Meaning of spanophilia | Babel Free

Definitions

Love of the rare.

rare, uncountable

Examples

“The species of insects which feed on, and therefore cause some degree of harm to, trees are, of course, legion and give ample scope to the spanophilia of enthusiastic forest entomologists.”

“[T]he best way to do so is to avoid the seven deadly clinical sins defined by Richard Asher: obscurity, cruelty, bad manners, over-specialisation, spanophilia (love of the rare), stupidity, and sloth.”

“They adored diagnosis, many suffered from spanophilia and most had little interest in time-consuming treatments.”

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