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epistemophilia (eh-pis-te-moh-FIL-ee-uh) - n., a excessive love of or striving for knowledge.


Technically just "love of," but for this -philia in particular the connotation of excessive is so strong, it has become denotation. Not that anyone here is likely to have this. Coined in Late Latin from Ancient Greek roots epistḗmē, knowledge + phília, love-of.

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