victoriousvocabulary:

CRYSTALLOMANIA

[noun]

an obsession with crystals and other crystalline objects.

Etymology: from Old English cristal, “clear ice/mineral”, from Latin crystallum, ‎“crystal, ice”, later reinforced from Anglo-Norman cristall, Middle French cristal, from Latin crystallum, from Ancient Greek κρύσταλλος ‎(krústallos, “clear ice”), from κρύος ‎(krúos, “frost”), from the Proto-Indo-European *krus-, *kru-, ‎“hard, hard outer surface, crust”.

[SuperPhazed – Crystal Head]