clinomania
[fr. Gk klin- : sloping, inclining + -mania]
an overwhelming desire to stay in bed,
esp. on a snowy (or rainy) day
“Clinomania… Not a bad mania, as manias go; and a
reasonably plausible excuse for taking Monday off.”
- Peter Bowler,
Wørd of the week – clinomania
March 12, 2006
