polemomania
nounEtymology By surface analysis, polemo- + -mania.
1
Rare An obsession with, or craving for, war.
- Indeed, at the thought of the “giant liar,” the poet is seized with a sort of polemomania.1874, “Mr. Tennyson's Social Philosophy”, in The Fortnightly, volume 21, page 243:
- Synonyms
- bellicosity, martialness, warlikeness
- Related terms
- polemic