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mania::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | manic disorder |
| Type of | major affective disorder, emotional disturbance, emotional disorder, affective disorder |
| Has types | hysteria, craze, delirium, frenzy, fury |
| Derivation | manic |
mania::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | cacoethes, passion |
| Type of | irrational motive |
| Has types | necrophilia, necrophilism, phaneromania, possession, potomania, pyromania, trichotillomania, agromania, alcoholism, dipsomania, egomania, kleptomania, logomania, logorrhea, monomania, necromania |
| Derivation | manic |
Examples of mania
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The femme fatale's crazy, and our heroes are just innocent victims of her mania.
From the latimes.com
The post-marketing reports found more than 800 incidences of psychosis or mania.
From the washingtonpost.com
But upon learning more about the story of tulip mania, Edmier became fascinated.
From the tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com
Among geeks, it has inspired a mania unseen since the days of the internet boom.
From the economist.com
If it is all that this year's Mozart mania achieves, that would be no bad thing.
From the economist.com
As bipolar disorder goes, mine tends to lean more towards depression than mania.
From the blogs.psychcentral.com
Despite social-mania, or maybe because of it, the transformation has taken root.
From the forbes.com
Bipolar disorder is characterized by alternating cycles of depression and mania.
From the sciencedaily.com
Most of the mania has been made into much of prosperity for much of the country.
From the en.wikipedia.org
- An irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action
- A mood disorder; an affective disorder in which the victim tends to respond excessively and sometimes violently
- (maniac) lunatic: an insane person
- (maniac) maniacal: wildly disordered; "a maniacal frenzy"
- (maniac) a person who has an obsession with or excessive enthusiasm for something
- (manic) frenzied: affected with or marked by frenzy or mania uncontrolled by reason; "a frenzied attack"; "a frenzied mob"; "the prosecutor's frenzied denunciation of the accused"- H.W.Carter; "outbursts of drunken violence and manic activity and creativity"
- The English suffix -mania denotes an obsession with something; a mania. The suffix is used in some medical terms denoting mental disorders. It has also entered standard English and is affixed to many different words to denote enthusiasm or obsession with that subject.
- Mania was released in 1986 in the UK and the U.S. on Big Time Records. It was The Lucy Show's second, and final, album. The band changed direction from the richly atmospheric and melancholy ...undone and aimed for a more upbeat, commercial sound. ...
- Mania was a British pop duo composed of Niara Scarlett and Giselle Sommerville. The two met while contributing song-writing for the British pop production house Xenomania and formed Mania in 2004. Mania was a joint venture between producer Brian Higgins and BMG. ...
