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\oh-nee-uh-MEY-nee-uh, -MEYN-yuh\
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noun
1. an uncontrollable desire to buy things.
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After leaving the store, I felt the first pinpricks of panic. I wondered
whether Go Shop technology could convert someone with mild oniomania (compulsive shopping disorder) into a total shopaholic with serious financial problems.
-- Alex Kuczynski, “A Weapon of Self-Destruction for Buyers,” New York Times, March 23, 2006
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Oniomania derives from the Greek ṓnios meaning "for sale" and the Late Latin mania meaning "extreme desire." It entered English in the late 1800s from the German Oniomanie.
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