mania

ma·ni·a  (mn-, mny)

n.

1. An excessively intense enthusiasm, interest, or desire; a craze: a mania for neatness.

2. Psychiatry A manifestation of bipolar disorder, characterized by profuse and rapidly changing ideas, exaggerated sexuality, gaiety, or irritability, and decreased sleep.

3. Violent abnormal behavior. See Synonyms at insanity.

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[Middle English, madness, from Late Latin, from Greek mani; see men-¹ in Indo-European roots.]

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mania

Noun

1. an obsessional enthusiasm or liking

2. a mental disorder characterized by great or violent excitement [Greek: madness]

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mania

1. a type of manie-depressive psychosis, exemplified by rapidly chang-ing ideas, extremes of emotion, and physical overactivity.
2. any violent or abnormal behavior. — maniac, n. — maniacal, adj.

See also: Manias

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a manifestation of intense enthusiasm for something; craze or fad, as musicomania.

See also: Fads

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	mania - an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action cacoethes, passion irrational motive - a motivation that is inconsistent with reason or logic agromania - an intense desire to be alone or out in the open dipsomania, potomania, alcoholism - an intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess egomania - an intense and irresistible love for yourself and concern for your own needs kleptomania - an irresistible impulse to steal in the absence of any economic motive logomania, logorrhea - pathologically excessive (and often incoherent) talking monomania, possession - a mania restricted to one thing or idea necromania, necrophilia, necrophilism - an irresistible sexual attraction to dead bodies phaneromania - an irresistible desire to pick at superficial body parts (as in obsessive nail-biting) pyromania - an uncontrollable desire to set fire to things trichotillomania - an irresistible urge to pull out your own hair
	2.	mania - a mood disorder; an affective disorder in which the victim tends to respond excessively and sometimes violently manic disorder affective disorder, emotional disorder, emotional disturbance, major affective disorder - any mental disorder not caused by detectable organic abnormalities of the brain and in which a major disturbance of emotions is predominant delirium, frenzy, hysteria, craze, fury - state of violent mental agitation

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mania

noun 1. obsession, passion, thing (informal) desire, rage, enthusiasm, craving, preoccupation, craze, fad (informal) fetish, fixation, partiality

noun 2. madness, disorder, frenzy, insanity, dementia, aberration, lunacy, delirium, craziness, derangement

Translations

mania [ˈmeɪnɪə] n → manía

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mania [ˈmeɪnɪə] n → manie f

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mania [ˈmeɪnɪə] n → Manie f;

(craze) → Sucht f;

persecution mania → Verfolgungswahn m

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mania [ˈmeɪnɪə] n → mania