melomaniacn.
/ˌmɛlə(ʊ)ˈmeɪnɪak/, U.S. /ˌmɛləˈmeɪniˌæk/ A passionate or obsessive enthusiast for music. Also in weakened sense: a music lover.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > music > music appreciation > music lover > [noun]
symphone1572
philharmonic1762
music lover1822
melomaniac1836
melomane1857
musical1861
musicophile1931
1836 Morning Post 8 June 6/1 An English melo-maniac has just cast thirty large bells, of graduated dimensions, and in the diatonic scale, which he has arranged in a vast Kiosk in London.
1880 Pall Mall Budget 3 Dec. 10/2 M. Grévy is a melomaniac.
1921 W. J. Turner Mus. & Life 18 It seems characteristic of that bogus science rampant among us to call persons fond of music ‘melomaniacs’.
1926 C. Gray in C. Gray & P. Heseltine Carlo Gesualdo i. 46 This musical education and culture was by no means confined to the male sex... Lucrezia d'Este, afterwards Duchess of Urbino, was a veritable melomaniac.
1973 Times Lit. Suppl. 17 Aug. 955/5 A silent musical feast, this one, but a must for all connoisseurs and melomaniacs.
1998 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 25 Apr. j4 There is appeal here for the rap-enraptured teenager, the English teacher, the melomaniac.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
<
n.1836