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mania
1[ mey-nee-uh, meyn-yuh ]
noun
- excessive excitement or enthusiasm; craze:
The country has a mania for soccer.
- Psychiatry. manic disorder.
Mania
2[ mey-nee-uh, meyn-yuh ]
noun
- an ancient Roman goddess of the dead.
-mania
3- 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 ).
-mania
1combining form
- indicating extreme desire or pleasure of a specified kind or an abnormal excitement aroused by something
pyromania
nymphomania
kleptomania
mania
2/ ˈmeɪnɪə /
noun
- See manic-depressivea mental disorder characterized by great excitement and occasionally violent behaviour See also manic-depressive
- an obsessional enthusiasm or partiality
a mania for mushrooms
mania
- Violent, abnormal, or impulsive behavior. In psychological terms, mania is wild activity associated with manic depression.
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Derived Forms
- -maniac, combining_form:in_adjectivecombining_form:in_noun:countable
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Other Words From
- hyper·mani·a noun
- sub·mani·a noun
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of mania1
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Example Sentences
“Iron” Mike Ditka, that leather-voiced coach of the mighty 1980s Chicago Bears, never smiled at the mania that followed his teams’ success, a lesson that always stuck with a young linebacker of his named Ron Rivera.
In a year of epic bull rallies, it’s probably fitting that we’re closing out 2020 with a bit of IPO mania for tech stocks.
Now, analysts at the firm note “signs of mania associated with a bubble are also appearing,” especially in high fliers like Apple and Tesla who both recently performed stock splits.
The recent options mania among individual investors has also led to new and unusual patterns in the overall options market.
In the hospital, he was diagnosed with psychosis, bipolar disorder and mania and placed on medication.
Mariachis provided the soundtrack as the City went mad with Fernando-mania.
Hours after these reports, one of which I published, the mania was in full swing.
Given the hoops mania, though, the gym is the largest in the state, capable of holding 3,000-plus rabid fans.
If you want to predict trends in America, whether in politics or products, World Cup mania should serve as a wake-up call.
The more important smell test is one of tone: that cocktail of cleverness, warmth, and mania that marked the Henson years.
This mania for correction shows itself too in relation to the authorities themselves.
Of the railway mania period I have spoken in a previous chapter.
The very next day he burst in upon me in a state of bliss bordering on mania.
When one considers a phenomenon of such range and intensity, it does not suffice to employ words like infatuation, fashion, mania.
At this period in his life it was a kind of mania to declare himself quite incapable in certain branches of his art.
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