mania
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ni noun
1.
excessive excitement or enthusiasm; craze: The country has a mania for soccer.
2.
Psychiatry. manic disorder.
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mania (ˈmeɪnɪə) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | See also manic depression a mental disorder characterized by great excitement and occasionally violent behaviour |
| 2. | an obsessional enthusiasm or partiality: a mania for mushrooms |
| [C14: via Late Latin from Greek: madness] | |
| -mania | |
| —n combining form | |
| indicating extreme desire or pleasure of a specified kind or an abnormal excitement aroused by something: kleptomania; nymphomania; pyromania | |
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| -maniac | |
| —adj combining form, —n combining form | |
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Word Origin & History
mania
c.1400, "mental derangement characterized by excitement and delusion," from L.L. mania "insanity, madness," from Gk. mania "madness," related to mainesthai "to rage, go mad," mantis "seer," menos "passion, spirit," all from PIE *men- "to think, to have one's mind aroused, rage, be furious" (see
mind (n.)). Sense of "fad, craze" is 1689, from Fr. manie. Used since 1500s (in imitation of Gk.) as the second element in compounds expressing particular types of madness (cf. nymphomania, 1775; kleptomania, 1830; megalomania, 1890).
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American Heritage
Medical Dictionary
mania ma·ni·a (mā'nē-ə, mān'yə)
n.
A manifestation of bipolar disorder characterized by profuse and rapidly changing ideas, exaggerated gaiety, and excessive physical activity.
-mania suff.
An abnormal compulsion or an extreme love for: pyromania.
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Cultural Dictionary
mania [(may-nee-uh)]Violent, abnormal, or impulsive behavior. In psychological terms, mania is wild activity associated with manic depression.
Note: A “mania” in popular terms is an intense enthusiasm or craze.
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Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia
mania
in psychiatric terminology, any abnormal or unusual state of excitement, as in the manic phase of bipolar disorder.
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Logomania is the medical condition and mania with underlying symptom logorrhoea.
The linguistic origins of mania, however, are not so clearcut.
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