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 [ˈmeɪnɪə]

n

1. (Psychiatry) a mental disorder characterized by great excitement and occasionally violent behaviour See also manic-depressive

2. an obsessional enthusiasm or partiality a mania for mushrooms

[via Late Latin from 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

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mania - Based on a Greek word meaning "madness," ultimately from an Indo-European root for "mind."

See also related terms for madness.

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 They had a mania for travelling.

2. madness, disorder, frenzy, insanity, dementia, aberration, lunacy, delirium, craziness, derangement the treatment of mania

Types of mania

ablutomania washing
agoramania open spaces
ailuromania cats
andromania men
Anglomania England
anthomania flowers
apimania bees
arithmomania counting
automania solitude
autophonomania suicide
balletomania ballet
ballistomania bullets
bibliomania books
chionomania snow
choreomania dancing
chrematomania money
cremnomania cliffs
cynomania dogs
dipsomania alcohol
doramania fur
dromomania travelling
egomania your self
eleuthromania freedom
entheomania religion
entomomania insects
ergasiomania work
eroticomania erotica
erotomania sex
florimania plants
gamomania marriage
graphomania writing
gymnomania nakedness
gynomania women
hamartiomania sin
hedonomania pleasure
heliomania sun
hippomania horses
homicidomania murder
hydromania water
hylomania woods
hypnomania sleep
ichthyomania fish
iconomania icons
kinesomania movement
kleptomania stealing
logomania talking
macromania becoming larger
megalomania your own importance
melomania music
mentulomania penises
micromania becoming smaller
monomania one thing
musicomania music
musomania mice
mythomania lies
necromania death
noctimania night
nudomania nudity
nymphomania sex
ochlomania crowds
oikomania home
oinomania wine
ophidiomania reptiles
orchidomania testicles
ornithomania birds
phagomania eating
pharmacomania medicines
phonomania noise
photomania light
plutomania great wealth
potomania drinking
pyromania fire
scribomania writing
siderodromomania railway travel
sitomania food
sophomania your own wisdom
thalassomania the sea
thanatomania death
theatromania theatre
timbromania stamps
trichomania hair
verbomania words
xenomania foreigners
zoomania animals

Translations

mania [ˈmeɪnɪə] N → manía f
to have a mania for (doing) sth → tener la manía de hacer algo

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mania [ˈmeɪniə] n

(= passion) → passion f
a mania for sth → une passion pour qch
the Beatle mania of the 60s → la Beatlemania des années 60

(= mental illness) → manie f

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mania

n

(= madness) → Manie f; persecution mania → Verfolgungswahn m

(inf: = enthusiasm) → Manie f, → Tick m (inf), → Fimmel m (inf); this mania for nationalization → diese Verstaatlichungsmanie; Gazza mania → Gazza-Manie f, → Gazza-Rummel m; this current mania for the 1920’s → die derzeitige Manie für die 20er Jahre; he has a mania for collecting old matchboxes → er hat den Tick or Fimmel, alte Streichholzschachteln zu sammeln (inf); he has a mania for collecting things → er hat einen Sammeltick (inf) → or -fimmel (inf); mania for cleanliness → Sauberkeitstick m (inf), → Reinlichkeitsfimmel m (inf); tennis has become a mania with him → Tennis ist bei ihm zur Manie geworden

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mania [ˈmeɪnɪə] n → mania
to have a mania for (doing) sth → avere la mania di (fare) qc

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mania

n mania [ˈmeiniə]

1 a form of mental illness in which the sufferer is over-active, over-excited, and unreasonably happy. manie مَرَض الجُنون мания mánie mani die Manie μανία manía maania هیجان بی دلیل mania manie שִׁיגָעוֹן सनक ludilo, mahnitost őrjöngés, téboly gila, mania oflæti, manía mania 躁病の 조병(躁病) manija mānija mania manie vanvidd, mani szaleństwo mania manie маниакальный синдром mánia manija manija mani ความคลั่งไคล้ cinnet, mani 狂躁 манія پیجان اور تشدّد کے دورے پڑنے کی بیماری chứng điên 狂躁

2 an unreasonable enthusiasm for something He has a mania for fast cars. liefde هَوَس، مَيْل مُفْرِط влечение mánie mani der Fimmel μανία, πάθος manía, obsesión hullus عشق vimma manie תַאֲווָה बुद्धिभ्रम, पागलपन, सनक,अत्यधिक उत्साह požuda mánia tergila-gila -æði, –della mania 熱狂的愛好 광적인 열중 nenormalus potraukis, silpnybė aizraušanās; apsēstība tergila-gila manie mani mania, słabość mania manie мания mánia strast manija mani, dille ความขาดสติ aşırı düşkünlük 狂熱 манія دھن، شدید جذبہ tính ham mê 狂热

n maniac [-ӕk]

an insane (and dangerous) person; a madman He drives like a maniac. maniak مَجْنون، مَهْووس маниак maniak sindssyg person der/die Wahnsinnige μανιακός maniaco hull دیوانه hullu maniaque מְטוֹרָף उन्मादग्रस्त, पागल luđak dühöngő őrült orang gila brjálæðingur maniaco, folle 狂人 광적인 사람 maniakas, beprotis maniaks; ārprātīgais orang gila maniak vanvittig person, (som en) galning szaleniec maníaco maniac маньяк maniak blaznež manijak galning, dåre, niding คนบ้า manyak kimse 瘋子 маніяк جنونی người điên 疯子

adj manic [ˈmӕnik]

1 of, or suffering from, mania She's in a manic state. manies يُعاني من خَلَل عَقْلي обсебен maniakální manisk Wahnsinns-... μανιακός maniaco maaniline, maniakaalne دیوانگی maaninen maniaque שִיגָעוֹן उन्मत्त manijakalan mániás menderita kegilaan óður maniaco 躁病の 조병(躁病)의 maniakinis maniakāls menderita kegilaan manisch manisk maniakalny maníaco de ne­bu­nie маниакальный maniakálny, maniacky maničen maničan manisk เกี่ยวกับความคลั่งไคล้ çılgın, deli 躁狂的 маніакальний دیوانگی سے متأثر thuộc tính gàn dở 躁狂的

2 extremely energetic, active and excited The new manager is one of those manic people who can't rest even for a minute. manies حَيَوي جِدا، شَديد الحيَوِيَّه والإنْفِعال вманиачен maniakální manisk verrückt μανιώδης, υπερβολικά ενεργητικός frenético rahutu, sebija بیش فعال innokas excité מְשוּגָע ל- अत्यधिक ऊर्जावान zanesen, pomaman mániákus gila kerja yfirspenntur, ólmur, ofvirkur maniaco 超活動的な 열광적인 nepaprastai aktyvus, energingas apsēsts; enerģijas pārpilns gila kerja manisch overaktiv/-energisk, overspent energiczny, pełen życia turbulento agitat одержимый maniakálny ekstremen maničan manisk กระตือรือร้น aşırı hareketli/heyecanlı 精力超人的 завзятий پر جوش، فعال buồn vui thất thường 精力超人的

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mania → هَوَس mánie mani Manie μανία manía mania manie manija mania ･･･熱 광적인 열중 manie mani obłęd mania мания mani ความคลั่งไคล้ çılgınlık sự đam mê 颠狂