schwarmerei
PRONUNCIATION:
(shver-muh-RY) 
MEANING:
noun:1. Extravagant enthusiasm.
2. Excessive sentimentality.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Schwärmerei (enthusiasm), from schwärmen (to swarm, to be wild or mad about). Earliest documented use: 1845. USAGE:
"True fulfillment flowed solely from whatever they had in common, for that was always a condition of schwarmerei."Jonathan Thomas; Midnight Call and Other Stories; Hippocampus Press; 2008.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. -John F. Kennedy, 35th US president (1917-1963)
