Meaning | An irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action. |
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Synonyms | passion, cacoethes |
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Narrower | agromania | An intense desire to be alone or out in the open |
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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 |
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Spanish | manía |
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Catalan | mania |
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Adjectives | manic | affected with or marked by frenzy or mania uncontrolled by reason |
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