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ma·nia (mā′nē ə, mān′yə)

noun

  1. wild or violent mental disorder; specif., the manic phase of bipolar affective disorder, characterized generally by abnormal excitability, exaggerated feelings of well-being, flight of ideas, excessive activity, etc.
  2. an excessive, persistent enthusiasm, liking, craving, or interest; obsession; craze a mania for dancing

Etymology: ME < LL < Gr, madness < mainesthai, to rage < IE base *men-, to think, be mentally excited > mind

mania Synonyms

mania

n.

craze, obsession, madness, manic disorder; see desire 1, insanity 1, obsession. See syn. study at hysteria.

mania Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • have: Then came the great railroad year, 1845, in which every one seemed to have a mania for new schemes.
  • treat: This leaflet is for anyone who wants to find out about the medications used to treat mania.
  • become: Like all misers, he was a jealous man, and his jealousy became a frantic mania.
  • develop: The hotel said that he had gone off his head and developed a religious mania; he was put in an asylum.
  • induce: How many violent crimes are committed by the estimated 500,000 Americans who experience antidepressant induced mania each year?
  • call: One immediately thinks of what he himself called persecution mania.

Preposition: for

  • building: With his strong esthetic sense, extravagance and mania for building, Henry's attention soon fell upon the Tower.

Adjective modifier

  • homicidal: There is such a thing as homicidal mania, or love of butchery in the abstract.
  • acute: Neuroleptics are superior to placebo in the treatment of acute mania i.
  • religious: There are people who are eaten up by religious mania, swept along by some malign force which they call faith.
  • bipolar: Evaluating the efficacy of atypical antipsychotics in bipolar mania.
  • speculative: One early example is the speculative mania in London in 1719 and 1720, when some 190 new joint stock companies were proposed.
  • severe: Many people taking it for undiagnosed bipolar depression go into mild or severe mania.

Modifies a noun

  • grip: As one headline writer put it: " Metatarsal mania grips England " .

Noun used with modifier

  • dotcom: How different from the dotcom mania of little more than two years ago.
  • tulip: Set in Amsterdam during the tulip mania of the seventeenth century.
  • merger: The co-operative way runs counter to the merger mania inherent in global capitalism.
  • persecution: Cobbold's recital of wrongs bears in every line the stamp of persecution mania.
  • canal: Building began at Over in 1793 at the height of " canal mania " .
  • railroad: The great era of railroad mania almost obliterated the old Chapel of Salford.
mania Quotes

Composing is not a profession. It is a maniaöa harmless madness.

—Honegger, Arthur

Your mania for sentences has dried up your heart.

—Flaubert, AnneJustine Caroline