chronomaniac n (Gr. khronos, time + Gr. mania, obsession, madness; cf. nymphomaniac) - a person obsessed with time and speed; one who attempts to live faster and to control time expenditure up to the smallest units.
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America suffers from chronomania. Faster, faster, faster! Why not to stop and to look in tranquility where we stand and into which future we have been rushing headlong.
Chronomania may become dangerous for your mental health. Try to find a different focus of life, apart from schedules and deadlines.
Chronomania may become dangerous for your mental health. Try to find a different focus of life, apart from schedules and deadlines.
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chocomaniac is when you devour everything/anything that is chocolate. The craze that happens during your chocolate frenzy.
Madeline is going bonkers with that 5 lb Hershey bar that she got for her birthday. Yes, she is definitley a chocomaniac and she is going to get herself sick.
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A slang term for weed or marijuana, but not just any weed. Chrondomaniac is another word for chronic; very potent, high grade marijuana, generally with red hairs in it, no seeds and high concentrations of white or opaque crystals (trichromes). Chrondomaniac is grown under perfect conditions which makes the THC (marijuana's active ingredient) level go through the roof.
Can also be plural.
A slang term for weed or marijuana, but not just any weed. Chrondomaniac is another word for chronic; very potent, high grade marijuana, generally with red hairs in it, no seeds and high concentrations of white or opaque crystals (trichromes). Chrondomaniac is grown under perfect conditions which makes the THC (marijuana's active ingredient) level go through the roof.
Can also be plural.
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