extreme admiration for England or its people, culture, customs, influence, etc.
Anglophilia in American English
(ˌæŋɡləˈfɪliə)
noun
a strong admiration or enthusiasm for England, its people, and things English
Derived forms
Anglophiliac (ˌæŋɡləˈfɪliˌæk)Anglophilic
adjective
Word origin
[1895–1900; anglo- + -philia]This word is first recorded in the period 1895–1900. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Marxism, apothecaries' measure, backwind, flamenco, frame of reference-philia is a combining form used in the formation of compound words that have the generalsense “unnatural attraction” (necrophilia), “tendency” (hemophilia); -philia also forms abstract nouns that correspond to adjectives ending in -philic or -philous or nouns ending in -phile. Other words that use the affix -philia include: ailurophilia, chromatophilia, chromophilia, hemophilia, scopophilia