mania in English

noun

1

mental illness marked by periods of great excitement, euphoria, delusions, and overactivity.

When these types break down they tend to develop either hysteria or mania .

synonyms: madness, derangement, dementia, insanity, lunacy, psychosis, mental illness, delirium, frenzy, hysteria, raving, wildness

suffix

1

denoting a specified type of mental abnormality or obsession.

kleptomania

noun

madness, derangement, dementia, insanity, lunacy, psychosis, mental illness, delirium, frenzy, hysteria, raving, wildness
obsession, compulsion, fixation, fetish, fascination, preoccupation, infatuation, passion, enthusiasm, desire, urge, craving, craze, fad, rage, thing, yen
passion, cacoethes

Use "mania" in a sentence

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2. He's got motorcycle mania.

3. Lottery mania is sweeping the state.

4. He had a mania for her.

5. Football mania is sweeping the country.

6. Tendency to mania; has highs and lows.

7. Kleptomania is a mania for stealing things.

8. He had a mania for fast cars.

9. She has a mania for ponies.

10. My parents with their pure-blood mania.

11. He has a mania for fast cars.

12. She was diagnosed as suffering from persecution mania.

13. JW: So is English mania good or bad?

14. The mania persisted into the present century.

15. She had a mania for fast cars.

16. So why your sudden mania for exercise?

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18. For mania, the symptoms can be much more unnerving.

19. They may be delirious with constant talking and mania.

20. Stock averages have shown all signs of a mania.

21. She's always cleaning - it's like a mania with her.

22. In his latter years religious mania clouded his mind.

23. Nowadays, alas! people had a mania for dashing around.

24. Bouts of Mania honors [the boxers'] struggles with lovely prose

25. The article describes the religious mania which is sweeping the US.

26. The book is about the 1980s mania for mergers and takeovers.

27. Balletomane (n.) by 1930, from ballet + -mane "one who has a mania for," which is ultimately from Greek and related to mania "madness."

28. It seemed to some observers that the English had a mania for travelling.

29. The way it takes me, my mania, is a compulsion to spend money.

30. Taking the name Mania, Benton became Agent Venom's partner for a time.

31. This is the depression that comes in the wake of the mania.

32. Keep-fit mania has hit some of the girls in the office.

33. The majority of individuals with Bipolar experience alternating episodes of mania and depression

34. Dancing mania Sydenham's chorea Tanganyika laughter epidemic Tarantism Viegas, Jennifer (1 August 2008).

35. Antipsychotics are also useful at stabilizing episodes of mania in people with Bipolar Disorder.

36. (Pathology) an uncontrollable urge or desire, esp for something harmful; mania: a Cacoethes: 4.

37. There is a particularly welcome parody of the current theatrical mania for sloping floors.

38. They have a mania for getting at the most delicate parts of the engine.

39. 28 And, of course, mania usually alternates with depression, to form a bipolar disorder.

40. English words for Amentia include madness, folly, lunacy, mania and being out of one's senses

41. Parents and teachers soon caught the planting mania, and saved seeds from their salads.

42. The violence of the crowd can only be explained as a sign of some collective mania.

43. Cold colors are applicable to dysphoria, irascibility, terror and fear as well as mania, epilepsy, etc.

44. Black has the action of restricting overjoy. The color is applicable to mania, endless laughing, etc.

45. A few years before a mania for the prices of gold in 1980.-Gold Confiscation Britain 1966

46. 21 They tend to get disorganized as the mania increases, and even more prone to poor judgment.

47. The study confirms the prognostic relevance of past course, e.g. number of previous episodes and mania-quotient.

48. (Pathology) an uncontrollable urge or desire, esp for something harmful; mania: a Cacoethes for smoking.

49. Blindfish is hanging out in Mesquite, NV at the Mesquite Motor Mania Car Show, this weekend

50. Typical Antipsychotics may also be used for the treatment of acute mania, agitation, and other conditions