mania
excessive excitement or enthusiasm; craze: The country has a mania for soccer.
Psychiatry. manic disorder.
Origin of mania
1Other words from mania
- hy·per·ma·ni·a, noun
- sub·ma·ni·a, noun
Other definitions for Mania (2 of 3)
an ancient Roman goddess of the dead.
Other definitions for -mania (3 of 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).
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How to use mania in a sentence
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.
Native American Basketball Team in Wyoming Have Hoop Dreams Of Their Own | Robert Silverman | August 31, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIf you want to predict trends in America, whether in politics or products, World Cup mania should serve as a wake-up call.
Ann Coulter Doesn’t Get the Real Reasons Behind America’s World Cup Mania | Kristen Soltis Anderson | July 1, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe more important smell test is one of tone: that cocktail of cleverness, warmth, and mania that marked the Henson years.
Bad Jokes and Silent Kids: How You Know Something Is Very Wrong With Muppets Most Wanted | Brandy Zadrozny | March 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
This mania for correction shows itself too in relation to the authorities themselves.
Children's Ways | James SullyOf the railway mania period I have spoken in a previous chapter.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland | Joseph TatlowThe very next day he burst in upon me in a state of bliss bordering on mania.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol | William J. LockeWhen one considers a phenomenon of such range and intensity, it does not suffice to employ words like infatuation, fashion, mania.
Repertory Of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A -- Z | Anatole Cerfberr and Jules Franois ChristopheAt this period in his life it was a kind of mania to declare himself quite incapable in certain branches of his art.
The Life & Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky | Modeste Tchaikovsky
British Dictionary definitions for mania (1 of 2)
/ (ˈmeɪnɪə) /
a mental disorder characterized by great excitement and occasionally violent behaviour: See also manic-depressive
an obsessional enthusiasm or partiality: a mania for mushrooms
Origin of mania
1British Dictionary definitions for -mania (2 of 2)
indicating extreme desire or pleasure of a specified kind or an abnormal excitement aroused by something: kleptomania; nymphomania; pyromania
Origin of -mania
2Derived forms of -mania
- -maniac, adj combining form, n combining form
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Cultural definitions for mania
[ (may-nee-uh) ]
Violent, abnormal, or impulsive behavior. In psychological terms, mania is wild activity associated with manic depression.
Notes for mania
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