manias 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

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 "manias" in a sentence

1. Let's talk about manias.

2. Manias, Panics and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises (5th ed.).

3. In both manias fusion with the psychic representative of the parental figure - the superego - occurs with comparable consequences.