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ma·ni·a
(mā′nē-ə, mān′yə)n.
1. An excessively intense enthusiasm, interest, or desire: a mania for neatness; a dance mania.
2. Psychiatry An abnormal psychological state characterized by symptoms such as elation, high energy and activity level, racing thoughts, irritability, and rapid speech, typically occurring in people with bipolar disorder.
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mania
(ˈmeɪnɪə)n
1. (Psychiatry) a mental disorder characterized by great excitement and occasionally violent behaviour. See also manic-depressive
2. an obsessional enthusiasm or partiality: a mania for mushrooms.
[C14: via Late Latin from Greek: madness]
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ma•ni•a
(ˈmeɪ ni ə, ˈmeɪn yə)n., pl. -ni•as.
1. excessive excitement or enthusiasm.
2. a pathological state characterized by euphoric mood, excessive activity or talkativeness, impaired judgment, and sometimes psychotic symptoms.
[1350–1400; < Latin < Greek manía madness]
-mania
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
- Based on a Greek word meaning "madness," ultimately from an Indo-European root for "mind."See also related terms for madness.
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mania
1. a type of manie-depressive psychosis, exemplified by rapidly chang-ing ideas, extremes of emotion, and physical overactivity.
2. any violent or abnormal behavior. — maniac, n. — maniacal, adj.
See also: Manias2. any violent or abnormal behavior. — maniac, n. — maniacal, adj.
a manifestation of intense enthusiasm for something; craze or fad, as musicomania.
See also: Fads-Ologies & -Isms. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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| Noun | 1. | mania - an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action irrational motive - a motivation that is inconsistent with reason or logic agromania - an intense desire to be alone or out in the open dipsomania, potomania, alcoholism - an intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess egomania - an intense and irresistible love for yourself and concern for your own needs kleptomania - an irresistible impulse to steal in the absence of any economic motive monomania, possession - a mania restricted to one thing or idea necromania, necrophilism - an irresistible sexual attraction to dead bodies phaneromania - an irresistible desire to pick at superficial body parts (as in obsessive nail-biting) pyromania - an uncontrollable desire to set fire to things trichotillomania - an irresistible urge to pull out your own hair |
| 2. | mania - a mood disorder; an affective disorder in which the victim tends to respond excessively and sometimes violently affective disorder, emotional disorder, emotional disturbance, major affective disorder - any mental disorder not caused by detectable organic abnormalities of the brain and in which a major disturbance of emotions is predominant |
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mania
noun
1. obsession, passion, thing (informal), desire, rage, enthusiasm, craving, preoccupation, craze, fad (informal), fetish, fixation, partiality They had a mania for travelling.
2. madness, disorder, frenzy, insanity, dementia, aberration, lunacy, delirium, craziness, derangement the treatment of maniawashing agoramaniaopen spaces ailuromaniacats andromaniamen AnglomaniaEngland anthomaniaflowers apimaniabees arithmomaniacounting automaniasolitude autophonomaniasuicide balletomaniaballet ballistomaniabullets bibliomaniabooks chionomaniasnow choreomaniadancing chrematomaniamoney cremnomaniacliffs cynomaniadogs dipsomaniaalcohol doramaniafur dromomaniatravelling egomaniayour self eleuthromaniafreedom entheomaniareligion entomomaniainsects ergasiomaniawork eroticomaniaerotica erotomaniasex florimaniaplants gamomaniamarriage graphomaniawriting gymnomanianakedness gynomaniawomen hamartiomaniasin hedonomaniapleasure heliomaniasun hippomaniahorses homicidomaniamurder hydromaniawater hylomaniawoods hypnomaniasleep ichthyomaniafish iconomaniaicons kinesomaniamovement kleptomaniastealing logomaniatalking macromaniabecoming larger megalomaniayour own importance melomaniamusic mentulomaniapenises micromaniabecoming smaller monomaniaone thing musicomaniamusic musomaniamice mythomanialies necromaniadeath noctimanianight nudomanianudity nymphomaniasex ochlomaniacrowds oikomaniahome oinomaniawine ophidiomaniareptiles orchidomaniatesticles ornithomaniabirds phagomaniaeating pharmacomaniamedicines phonomanianoise photomanialight plutomaniagreat wealth potomaniadrinking pyromaniafire scribomaniawriting siderodromomaniarailway travel sitomaniafood sophomaniayour own wisdom thalassomaniathe sea thanatomaniadeath theatromaniatheatre timbromaniastamps trichomaniahair verbomaniawords xenomaniaforeigners zoomaniaanimals
Types of mania
ablutomaniaCollins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002
mania
noun1. A subject or activity that inspires lively interest:
3. Psychiatry. Serious mental illness or disorder impairing a person's capacity to function normally and safely:
brainsickness, craziness, dementia, derangement, disturbance, insaneness, insanity, lunacy, madness, mental illness, psychopathy, unbalance.
Psychology: aberration, alienation.
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Translations
مَرَض الجُنونهَوَسهَوَس، مَيْل مُفْرِط
mánie
mani
mania
manija
mániatéboly
-æîi, -dellaoflæti, manía
･･･熱
광적인 열중
maniakasmaniakinisnenormalus potraukisnepaprastai aktyvus
aizraušanāsapsēstībamānija
mani
ความคลั่งไคล้
sự đam mê
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
mania
[ˈmeɪniə] n (= passion) → passion f
a mania for sth → une passion pour qch
the Beatle mania of the 60s → la Beatlemania des années 60
a mania for sth → une passion pour qch
the Beatle mania of the 60s → la Beatlemania des années 60
(= mental illness) → manie f
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
mania
n
(inf: = enthusiasm) → Manie f, → Tick m (inf), → Fimmel m (inf); this mania for nationalization → diese Verstaatlichungsmanie; Gazza mania → Gazza-Manie f, → Gazza-Rummel m; this current mania for the 1920’s → die derzeitige Manie für die 20er Jahre; he has a mania for collecting old matchboxes → er hat den Tick or Fimmel, alte Streichholzschachteln zu sammeln (inf); he has a mania for collecting things → er hat einen Sammeltick (inf) → or -fimmel (inf); mania for cleanliness → Sauberkeitstick m (inf), → Reinlichkeitsfimmel m (inf); tennis has become a mania with him → Tennis ist bei ihm zur Manie geworden
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
mania
(ˈmeiniə) noun1. a form of mental illness in which the sufferer is over-active, over-excited, and unreasonably happy.
2. an unreasonable enthusiasm for something. He has a mania for fast cars.
ˈmaniac (-ӕk) noun an insane (and dangerous) person; a madman. He drives like a maniac.
manic (ˈmӕnik) adjective1. of, or suffering from, mania. She's in a manic state.
2. extremely energetic, active and excited. The new manager is one of those manic people who can't rest even for a minute.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
mania
→ هَوَس mánie mani Manie μανία manía mania manie manija mania ･･･熱 광적인 열중 manie mani obłęd mania мания mani ความคลั่งไคล้ çılgınlık sự đam mê 颠狂Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
ma·ni·a
n. manía, trastorno emocional caracterizado por excitación excesiva, ansiedad y altas y bajas de espíritu.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
mania
n maníaEnglish-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.