mania
noun
excessive excitement or enthusiasm; craze.
manias
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pluralof mania.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Wall Street manias and crashes, sadly, are about as variable as a Scooby-Doo episode.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026
No one seems to know, but I find it helpful to remind myself constantly that the internet can make niche manias look like moral revolutions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2025
It’s hard to value the potential growth of such businesses, which is why speculative meme-stock manias can take hold so easily.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2025
Berg, a Swiss writer and social activist, sprays her fury across the whole landscape of technological and economic manias that are rendering the 21st century intolerable.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 13, 2022
Used to his manias, Aureliano paid no attention to him.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
