An excessive or obsessive fascination with horns, horn-shaped objects, or horn-like structures, particularly in a scientific or collecting context.
From Greek 'keras' (horn) + 'mania' (obsession, madness). A playful medical/psychological term constructed on the model of other '-mania' words for irrational enthusiasms.
While ceratomania sounds medical, it's actually a delightful term that captures how some collectors become absolutely obsessed with horns—whether from beetles, antelope, or fossilized ceratopsians!
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