empleomania

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noun

Mania for holding public office.

💬 Usage Examples

“Then it dawned on me that Mr. Yang’s desire to become a scholar-official might not have originated only from empleomania. Driven to despair, he too must have thought of officialdom as the only possible way to live a life different from a futile intellectual’s.” Ha Jin; The Crazed; Vintage; 2007.
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