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mania
1[ mey-nee-uh, meyn-yuh ]
noun
- excessive excitement or enthusiasm; craze:
The country has a mania for soccer.
- Psychiatry. manic disorder.
Mania
2[ mey-nee-uh, meyn-yuh ]
noun
- an ancient Roman goddess of the dead.
-mania
3- a combining form of mania ( megalomania ); extended to mean “enthusiasm, often of an extreme and transient nature,” for that specified by the initial element ( bibliomania ).
mania
1/ ˈmeɪnɪə /
noun
- a mental disorder characterized by great excitement and occasionally violent behaviour See also manic-depressive
- an obsessional enthusiasm or partiality
a mania for mushrooms
-mania
2combining form
- indicating extreme desire or pleasure of a specified kind or an abnormal excitement aroused by something
kleptomania
pyromania
nymphomania
mania
- Violent, abnormal, or impulsive behavior. In psychological terms, mania is wild activity associated with manic depression.
Notes
Derived Forms
- -maniac, combining_form:in_adjectivecombining_form:in_noun:countable
Other Words From
- hyper·mani·a noun
- sub·mani·a noun
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of mania1
Origin of mania2
Example Sentences
Mariachis provided the soundtrack as the City went mad with Fernando-mania.
Hours after these reports, one of which I published, the mania was in full swing.
Given the hoops mania, though, the gym is the largest in the state, capable of holding 3,000-plus rabid fans.
If you want to predict trends in America, whether in politics or products, World Cup mania should serve as a wake-up call.
The more important smell test is one of tone: that cocktail of cleverness, warmth, and mania that marked the Henson years.
This mania for correction shows itself too in relation to the authorities themselves.
Of the railway mania period I have spoken in a previous chapter.
The very next day he burst in upon me in a state of bliss bordering on mania.
When one considers a phenomenon of such range and intensity, it does not suffice to employ words like infatuation, fashion, mania.
At this period in his life it was a kind of mania to declare himself quite incapable in certain branches of his art.
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