🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

写诗狂

Pronunciation / Transliteration: xiě shī kuáng

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Metromania/ˌmɛt.rəˈmeɪ.ni.ə/
nounCEFR C2 (Proficient)Top #45200 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"他的写诗狂使他夜以继日地创作韵文。"

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    An obsessive, compulsive craze or mania for writing poetry.

    "His sudden influx of rhyming verses was diagnosed by his friends as a mild case of metromania."
  2. 2

    An excessive preoccupation with poetic meter and versification.

    "The literary critic argued that the poet's strict adherence to form bordered on metromania."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Greek words 'metron' meaning 'measure' (referring to poetic meter) and 'mania' meaning 'madness' or 'insane desire'. Originally coined in the 18th century, it historically described an obsessive compulsion or craze for writing verse or poetry.

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