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[mey-nee-uh, meyn-yuh]

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noun

excessive excitement or enthusiasm; craze: The country has a mania for soccer.

Psychiatry. manic disorder.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin < Greek manía madness; akin to maenad, mind

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hy·per·ma·ni·a, noun

sub·ma·ni·a, noun

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Symptoms of bipolar disorder tend to fluctuate dramatically between two extremes: mania and depression.

The mania for small comp courses seems to be at fault.

Yet there are good common reasons for considering all the cases in this latest outbreak of merger mania with extreme scepticism.

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Symptoms of bipolar disorder tend to fluctuate dramatically between two extremes: mania and depression.

The mania for small comp courses seems to be at fault.

Yet there are good common reasons for considering all the cases in this latest outbreak of merger mania with extreme scepticism.

Severe mania is usually accompanied by hallucinations and delusions of various kinds, including paranoid.

The city's art mania is also due in no small part to a handful of energetic collectors.

The mania has been triggered by tricky negotiations on welfare reform.

These shoppers tend to suffer from bipolar disorder, which causes them to swing between periods of depression and mania.

When they went public last year, the market was in the midst of tech-stock mania.

Two of the meds together causes mania in patients who are bipoler.

Among geeks, it has inspired a mania unseen since the days of the internet boom.

Labour's enthusiasm for spending on apprenticeships was accompanied by a mania for reorganisation and red tape.

They see mania in gold, but never saw it with derivatives.

When psychologists diagnose bipolar disorder, they typically look for mood swings between agitated mania and bleak depression.

And if you're that kind of person, there's a host of apps and gadgets that can feed your mania for recording progress.

The ferocious press attention she endured from childhood fed a lifelong mania for privacy.

The convergence of easy hacking and affordable hardware turned an obscure geek hobby into full-bore macho mania.

And there is no sign of the widespread mania in the high-tech world that occurred last time around:.

As well, it demonstrated the more universal mania that drives people given enough rope to hang themselves.

He unspools a captivating theory with four psychological phases: stealth, awareness, mania and blow off.

Deal with the reasons they disagree and don't attribute to them some kind of mania.

The continual desire to increase the size of heavy ordnance has become on the part of many nations little else than a mania.

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noun

an ancient Roman goddess of the dead.

a combining form of mania (megalomania); extended to mean “enthusiasm, often of an extreme and transient nature,” for that specified by the initial element (bibliomania).

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mania (ˈmeɪnɪə)

—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]

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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

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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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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.

American Heritage

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.

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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