zoomaniahttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zoomania_n%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_usezoomania, n.
Revised 2017

zoomanianoun

  1. 1807–
    Passionate enthusiasm for or interest in animals.
    1. 1807
      So wedded were the romanists to this zoo-mania, that the sculptures of the churches..bore signs of the prevailing taste.
      Literary Panorama July 787/1
    2. 1841
      That attachment to birds and animals..has afforded me no little..solace, though you have sometimes been pleased to term it a zoo-mania.
      H. Smith, Moneyed Man xxi
    3. 1979
      Gerald Durrell has had zoomania since he was 2.
      Winnipeg Free Press 14 April 23
    4. 1990
      These compulsive animal collectors suffer from what I call zoomania.
      Journal Tribune (Biddeford, Maine) 27 February 17/2

Originally published as part of the entry for zoo-, comb. form

zoo-, comb. form was revised in June 2017.