cinephagic

English

Etymology

From cine- +‎ -phagic.

Adjective

cinephagic (not comparable)

  1. That voraciously consumes cinema, with implied negative perception of such habits
    • 2011 June 10, Genevieve Yue, “Will the Circle Be Unbroken? Third Annual Migrating Forms Festival at New York’s Anthology Film Archives”, in Reverse Shot‎[1], Museum of the Moving Image, archived from the original on 4 January 2026:
      In this way, Migrating Forms, formerly the New York Underground Film Festival, allows itself considerable experimental drift, programming an impressively broad range of contemporary avant-garde films, vintage video art, schlocky revivals and remixes, and esoterica to satiate the rarest of cinephagic appetites.
    • 2025 December 2, A. S. Hamrah, “A Total Breakdown of All the Easter Eggs”, in The New York Review of Books‎[2], archived from the original on 2 December 2025:
      The implication of their overreactions is clear: a defense of laziness, convenience, and (cinephagic) gluttony—-things they probably don’t like in other people.
  • cinephagia
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