mania
111Mania — See Hypomania; Lithium Therapy; Manic Depressive Illness; Schizophrenia: Emergence: Kraepelin (from 1893); Wernicke–Kleist–Leonhard Pathway …
112-mania — combining form Psychology 1》 denoting a specified type of mental abnormality or obsession: kleptomania. 2》 denoting extreme enthusiasm or admiration: Beatlemania. Derivatives maniac combining form …
113mania — noun 1》 mental illness marked by periods of excitement, delusions, and overactivity. 2》 an obsession. Origin ME: via late L. from Gk, lit. madness …
114mania — n. 1. Madness, insanity, violent derangement, lunacy, aberration, delirium, frenzy, dementia. 2. Vehement desire …
115mania — n 1. craze, rage, urge, compulsion, desire, craving, cacoe*thes; yen, yearning, Sl. letch, infatuation, passion, obsession, fixation, fascination, preoccupation; fanaticism, monomania. 2. enthusiasm, excitement, furor; commotion, uproar,… …
116mania — ma·nia …
117-mania — 1) a state of mind characterized by excessive cheerfulness and increased activity. The mood is euphoric and changes rapidly to irritability. Thought and speech are rapid to the point of incoherence and the connections between ideas may be… …
118mania — noun Syn: obsession, compulsion, fixation, fetish, fascination, preoccupation, passion, enthusiasm, desire, urge, craving, craze, fad, rage; informal thing …
119-mania — UK [meɪnɪə] / US suffix 1) used with many nouns to make nouns meaning an extremely strong enthusiasm for something Beatlemania 2) used for making nouns describing a particular type of mental illness kleptomania (= a mental illness that makes you… …
120mania — /ˈmeɪniə / (say mayneeuh), / jə/ (say yuh) noun 1. great excitement or enthusiasm; craze. 2. Psychology a form of insanity characterised by great excitement, with or without delusions, and in its acute stage by great violence. {late Middle… …