Scribe of wisdom

Emacity

The desire or fondness of buying.
Emacity became obsolete in the twentieth century, replaced by less elegant terms such as retail therapy , compulsive buying and shopaholics.

Similar sounding world emaciate means to cause to lose flesh so as to become very thin

Example
I couldn’t control my emacity and I had to buy another suitcase to carry home everything I bought on vacation.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *