hydrophilian.
/hʌɪdrəˈfɪlɪə/ rare.
A love of being near water.
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the mind > emotion > love > [noun] > love of water
hydrophilia1904
1904 G. S. Hall Adolescence II. xii. 195 Others..can sit by the hour, seeing and hearing the movements of water in sea or stream. The best demonstration of the fact of this hydrophilia is the amount of cold..that it will overcome.
1959 Times Lit. Suppl. 31 July 450/4 A symptom of the derangement of sober, law-abiding citizens succumbing to hydrophilia is public confession... These very readable confessions can infect hardened land-lubbers with sea fever.
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n.1904- pupil dilator
- pupil king
- pupil nurse
- pupil power
- pupil reaction
- pupil teacher
- pupil-centred
- pupil-constricting
- pupil-contracting
- pupil-dilating
- pupil-less
- pupil-like
- pupil-master
- pupil-monger
- pupil-mongering
- pupil-room
- pupil-teacher candidate
- pupil-teacher centre
- pupil-teacher system
- pupil-teacher training-centre
- pupil-teacherdom
- pupil-teachership
- pupil-teachery
- pupilability
- pupilarity