'Mania' definitions:
Definition of 'mania'
(from WordNet)
noun
noun
A mood disorder; an affective disorder in which the victim tends to respond excessively and sometimes violently [syn: mania, manic disorder]
Definition of 'Mania'
From: GCIDE
- Mania \Ma"ni*a\, n. [L. mania, Gr. ?, fr. ? to rage; cf. OE. manie, F. manie. Cf. Mind, n., Necromancy.]
- 1. Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity. Cf. Delirium. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; as, the tulip mania. [1913 Webster]
- Mania a potu [L.], madness from drinking; delirium tremens. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Insanity; derangement; madness; lunacy; alienation; aberration; delirium; frenzy. See Insanity. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'mania'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aberration,
- abnormality,
- abstraction,
- abulia,
- alienation,
- an universal wolf,
- anxiety,
- anxiety equivalent,
- anxiety state,
- apathy,
- appetence,
- appetency,
- appetite,
- appetition,
- brain damage,
- brainsickness,
- bug,
- catatonic stupor,
- clouded mind,
- compulsion,
- coveting,
- craving,
- craze,
- craziness,
- crazy fancy,
- daftness,
- dejection,
- dementedness,
- dementia,
- depression,
- derangement,
- desire,
- detachment,
- disorientation,
- distraction,
- elation,
- emotionalism,
- enthusiasm,
- euphoria,
- fad,
- fanaticism,
- fancy,
- fascination,
- fixation,
- fixed idea,
- folie,
- folie du doute,
- frenzy,
- furor,
- furore,
- fury,
- hangup,
- hunger,
- hypochondria,
- hysteria,
- hysterics,
- idee fixe,
- indifference,
- infatuation,
- insaneness,
- insanity,
- insensibility,
- irrationality,
- itch,
- itching,
- lethargy,
- loss of mind,
- loss of reason,
- lunacy,
- madness,
- manic-depressive psychosis,
- melancholia,
- mental deficiency,
- mental derangement,
- mental disease,
- mental disorder,
- mental distress,
- mental disturbance,
- mental illness,
- mental instability,
- mental sickness,
- mind overthrown,
- mindsickness,
- obsession,
- oddness,
- overambitiousness,
- overanxiety,
- overanxiousness,
- overeagerness,
- overenthusiasm,
- overzealousness,
- passion,
- pathological indecisiveness,
- pixilation,
- possession,
- preoccupation,
- prurience,
- pruriency,
- psychalgia,
- psychomotor disturbance,
- queerness,
- rabidness,
- rage,
- reasonlessness,
- senselessness,
- sexual desire,
- shattered mind,
- sick mind,
- sickness,
- strangeness,
- stupor,
- thing,
- thirst,
- tic,
- twitching,
- unbalance,
- unbalanced mind,
- unresponsiveness,
- unsaneness,
- unsound mind,
- unsoundness,
- unsoundness of mind,
- urge,
- withdrawal,
- witlessness,
- yearning,
- yen,
- zealotism,
- zealotry