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Someone whose hobby has started making decisions for them.
means A person with excessive, uncritical zeal for something — devoted well past the point of reason.
from From Latin 'fanaticus,' meaning 'of a temple' or 'inspired by a god' — from 'fanum,' temple. It originally described the frenzied, ecstatic behavior of temple devotees and priests, worked up into religious rapture. The word kept that whiff of possession as it drifted into English, describing anyone seized by an idea the way others are seized by gods.
- word origin
- from fanaticus, meaning temple-inspired, possibly possessed
- root word
- shares latin root with fane, a shrine
- thin line
- one unread book away from being called enthusiast instead