HyperDic: mania

English > 2 senses of the word *mania*:
NOUN	motive	mania, passion, cacoethes	an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action
NOUN	state	mania, manic disorder	a mood disorder

mania > pronunciation
Sounds	mey'niyah
Rhymes	Abyssinia ... zinnia: 217 rhymes with iyah...

English > *mania*: 2 senses > noun 1, motive
Meaning	An irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action.
Synonyms	passion, cacoethes
Narrower	agromania	An intense desire to be alone or out in the open
	dipsomania, alcoholism, potomania	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
	logorrhea, logomania	pathologically excessive (and often incoherent) talking
	monomania, possession	A mania restricted to one thing or idea
	necrophilia, necrophilism, necromania	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
Broader	irrational motive	A motivation that is inconsistent with reason or logic
Spanish	manía
Catalan	mania
Adjectives	manic	affected with or marked by frenzy or mania uncontrolled by reason

English > *mania*: 2 senses > noun 2, state
Meaning	A mood disorder; an affective disorder in which the victim tends to respond excessively and sometimes violently.
Synonym	manic disorder
Narrower	craze, delirium, frenzy, fury, hysteria	state of violent mental agitation
Broader	affective disorder, major affective disorder, emotional disorder, emotional disturbance	Any mental disorder not caused by detectable organic abnormalities of the brain and in which a major disturbance of emotions is predominant
Spanish	manía, trastorno maníaco
Catalan	mania
Adjectives	manic	affected with or marked by frenzy or mania uncontrolled by reason

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