MANIA - 14 definitions found
mania n 1: an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action [syn: mania, passion, cacoethes] 2: a mood disorder; an affective disorder in which the victim tends to respond excessively and sometimes violently [syn: mania, manic disorder] mania - localma mania anima maina aniam amain maani maian 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," also related to menos "passion, spirit," all from PIE *mn-/*men- "to think, to have one's mind aroused, rage, be furious" (cf. Skt. matih "thought," L. mens "mind, understanding reason," Skt. munih "sage, seer," Goth. munan "to think," O.E. gemynd "memory"). 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). Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) mania noun Etymology: Middle English, from Late Latin, from Greek, from mainesthai to be mad; akin to Greek menos spirit — more at mind Date: 14th century 1. excitement manifested by mental and physical hyperactivity, disorganization of behavior, and elevation of mood; specifically the manic phase of bipolar disorder 2. a. excessive or unreasonable enthusiasm <a mania for saving things> — often used in combination b. the object of such enthusiasm Oxford English Reference Dictionary
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Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary mania (manias) 1. If you say that a person or group has a mania for something, you mean that they enjoy it very much or spend a lot of time on it. It seemed to some observers that the English had a mania for travelling... ...Mozart mania. N-COUNT: usu sing, oft N for n/-ing, n N 2. Mania is a mental illness which causes the sufferer to become very worried or concerned about something. ...the treatment of mania... N-UNCOUNT: also N in pl English Explanatory Dictionary mania ˈmeɪnjə n. 1 Psychol. mental illness marked by periods of great excitement and violence. 2 (often foll. by for) excessive enthusiasm; an obsession (has a mania for jogging). [ME f. LL f. Gk, = madness f. mainomai be mad, rel. to MIND] Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Mania \Ma"ni*a\, n. [L. mania, Gr. ?, fr. ? to rage; cf. OE. manie, F. manie. Cf. Mind, n., Necromancy.] 1. Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity. Cf. Delirium. 2. Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; as, the tulip mania. Mania a potu [L.], madness from drinking; delirium tremens. Syn: Insanity; derangement; madness; lunacy; alienation; aberration; delirium; frenzy. See Insanity. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms mania n. 1. Madness, insanity, violent derangement, lunacy, aberration, delirium, frenzy, dementia. 2. Vehement desire. English Explanatory Dictionary (Synonyms) mania ˈmeɪnjə n. 1 rage, craze, passion, obsession, compulsion, urge, fascination, preoccupation, furore or US furor, yearning, craving, desire, cacoethes, Colloq fad, yen: By that time, the hula hoop mania had died down. She has a mania for collecting apostle spoons. 2 madness, lunacy, insanity, dementia, derangement, hysteria, Technical manic disorder: The psychiatrists diagnosed his problem as a mania. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 129 Moby Thesaurus words for "mania": aberration, abnormality, abstraction, abulia, alienation, an universal wolf, anxiety, anxiety equivalent, anxiety state, apathy, appetence, appetency, appetite, appetition, brain damage, brainsickness, bug, catatonic stupor, clouded mind, compulsion, coveting, craving, craze, craziness, crazy fancy, daftness, dejection, dementedness, dementia, depression, derangement, desire, detachment, disorientation, distraction, elation, emotionalism, enthusiasm, euphoria, fad, fanaticism, fancy, fascination, fixation, fixed idea, folie, folie du doute, frenzy, furor, furore, fury, hangup, hunger, hypochondria, hysteria, hysterics, idee fixe, indifference, infatuation, insaneness, insanity, insensibility, irrationality, itch, itching, lethargy, loss of mind, loss of reason, lunacy, madness, manic-depressive psychosis, melancholia, mental deficiency, mental derangement, mental disease, mental disorder, mental distress, mental disturbance, mental illness, mental instability, mental sickness, mind overthrown, mindsickness, obsession, oddness, overambitiousness, overanxiety, overanxiousness, overeagerness, overenthusiasm, overzealousness, passion, pathological indecisiveness, pixilation, possession, preoccupation, prurience, pruriency, psychalgia, psychomotor disturbance, queerness, rabidness, rage, reasonlessness, senselessness, sexual desire, shattered mind, sick mind, sickness, strangeness, stupor, thing, thirst, tic, twitching, unbalance, unbalanced mind, unresponsiveness, unsaneness, unsound mind, unsoundness, unsoundness of mind, urge, withdrawal, witlessness, yearning, yen, zealotism, zealotry |
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