Mania

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An excessively intense enthusiasm, interest, or desire; a craze: a mania for neatness.
  • n. Psychiatry A manifestation of bipolar disorder, characterized by profuse and rapidly changing ideas, exaggerated sexuality, gaiety, or irritability, and decreased sleep.
  • n. Violent abnormal behavior. See Synonyms at insanity.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity.
  • n. Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; fanaticism
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity. Cf. delirium.
  • n. Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Any form or phase of insanity with exaltation of spirits and rapidity of mental action; specifically, a psychoneurosis with these as the fundamental features.
  • n. An eager, uncontrolled, or uncontrollable desire: as, a mania for drink; in colloquial use, a “rage” or craze for something: as, a mania for first editions.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a mood disorder; an affective disorder in which the victim tends to respond excessively and sometimes violently
  • n. an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action
  • Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    frenzy    delirium    insanity    derangement    aberration    alienation    madness    lunacy   
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    Words that are found in similar contexts
    insanity    hysteria    frenzy    epilepsy    delirium    hallucination    obsession    convulsion    dementia    panic