Eleutheromania
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Eleutheromania, or eleutherophilia is "a mania or frantic zeal for freedom". Some usages of the term make it sound like it could be used in a medical context with a hint of an irrational disorder, such as John G Robertson's definition that described it as a ''mad zeal or irresistible craving for freedom''.John Robertson, An Excess of Phobias and Manias, 2003 p 75 However other usages assign to the term normal human emotional responses such as a mere passion for liberty. Individuals with this condition are called eleutheromaniacs.Current Literature - Volume 49 - Page 564, Edward Jewitt Wheeler - 1910 An antonym for the term is eleutherophobia. An individual that fears freedom is an eleutherophobe.


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