agromania

noun

Meaning

An intense, abnormal desire to live in the countryside or engage in agricultural activities.

Examples

  • His sudden agromania led him to quit his high-paying corporate job to start a small goat farm.
  • Psychologists noted that her agromania was a reaction to the suffocating stress of urban living.

Synonyms: wanderlust, pastoralism, back-to-the-land, agrarianism