(uncountable) Hyperenthusiasm for tulips.
Used in a Sentence
tulipomania
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for tulipomania.
Editorial note
The idea that the Bitcoin bubble is something more like the Dot Com bubble than Tulipomania seems plausible to me.
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Quick take
(uncountable) Hyperenthusiasm for tulips.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of tulipomania gathered in one view.
(uncountable, countable) Such enthusiasm (or the period of its duration) during the Dutch Golden Age when contract prices for bulbs of the recently introduced tulip reached extraordinarily high levels and then suddenly collapsed (1634–1637); it is widely considered the first speculative bubble (asset bubble).
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for tulipomania.
noun
(uncountable) Hyperenthusiasm for tulips.
noun
(uncountable, countable) Such enthusiasm (or the period of its duration) during the Dutch Golden Age when contract prices for bulbs of the recently introduced tulip reached extraordinarily high levels and then suddenly collapsed (1634–1637); it is widely considered the first speculative bubble (asset bubble).
Example sentences
The idea that the Bitcoin bubble is something more like the Dot Com bubble than Tulipomania seems plausible to me.
The tulipomania page does not support the idea that high tulip prices didn't happen.
If you really want to compare Bitcoin to Tulipomania without embarrassing yourself, you should read some modern historical work on Tulipomania like Garber's Famous First Bubbles, and not an utterly obsolete polemical work by a hack.
John Law's bank, the South Sea bubble, tulipomania.
- NFTs were tulipomania - hype and enthusiasm with no value behind the asset.
I don't mean to single you out here, but this is a demonstration of how most people know jack shit about Tulipomania (even though many of them are perfectly willing to bloviate about it and compare Bitcoin to tulips).
If you know about John Law's bank, and the Mississippi Bubble, and the South Seas bubble, and tulipomania, and the original Charles Ponzi, you'll recognize all those scams in the crypto industry.
Dutch tulip bulbs aren't even close to worthless right now, and they weren't worthless after Tulipomania either; for example: > Even the magnitudes of prices for valuable bulbs and their patterns of decline are not out of line with later prices for new varieties of rare bulbs.
Quote examples
He covers some memorable classics, such as the Dutch "Tulipomania", but there is much more, such as a take on "slow poisoners".
It describes all the classics - a pump and dump, a Ponzi scheme, a pyramid scheme, a "bubble", "tulipomania", etc - from the first time they appeared on a large scale.
Proper noun examples
If you read up on a book about Tulipomania, you'll notice there are no contemporary photos of tulips like Semper Augustus.
More like Tulipomania, maybe Madoff if it can be proven that it was intentional.
Read the Wikipedia article on Tulipomania, or _Famous First Bubbles_.
Frequently asked questions
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How do you use tulipomania in a sentence?
The idea that the Bitcoin bubble is something more like the Dot Com bubble than Tulipomania seems plausible to me.
What does tulipomania mean?
(uncountable) Hyperenthusiasm for tulips.
What part of speech is tulipomania?
tulipomania is commonly used as noun.