Xenomania

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  • n. A strong preference for foreign customs, manners, or institutions; the gaining of pleasure from meeting strangers or visiting foreign countries.
  • n. An obsession with strangers.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A mania for, or an inordinate attachment to, foreign customs, institutions, manners, fashions, etc.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A mania for foreign persons or things.
  • Word Usage
    "_Miscellany_ had shown by its collection of the best poetical work of the preceding half century the extraordinary effect which a judicious xenomania"