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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

MA'NIA, n. [L. and Gr.] Madness.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action [syn: mania, passion, cacoethes]
2: a mood disorder; an affective disorder in which the victim tends to respond excessively and sometimes violently [syn: mania, manic disorder]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English, from Late Latin, from Greek, from mainesthai to be mad; akin to Greek menos spirit — more at mind Date: 14th century 1. excitement manifested by mental and physical hyperactivity, disorganization of behavior, and elevation of mood; specifically the manic phase of bipolar disorder 2. a. excessive or unreasonable enthusiasm <a mania for saving things> — often used in combination b. the object of such enthusiasm

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 Psychol. mental illness marked by periods of great excitement and violence. 2 (often foll. by for) excessive enthusiasm; an obsession (has a mania for jogging). Etymology: ME f. LL f. Gk, = madness f. mainomai be mad, rel. to MIND

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. 2. Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; as, the tulip mania. Mania a potu [L.], madness from drinking; delirium tremens. Syn: Insanity; derangement; madness; lunacy; alienation; aberration; delirium; frenzy. See Insanity.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(manias) 1. If you say that a person or group has a mania for something, you mean that they enjoy it very much or spend a lot of time on it. It seemed to some observers that the English had a mania for travelling... ...Mozart mania. N-COUNT: usu sing, oft N for n/-ing, n N 2. Mania is a mental illness which causes the sufferer to become very worried or concerned about something. ...the treatment of mania... N-UNCOUNT: also N in pl

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Madness, insanity, violent derangement, lunacy, aberration, delirium, frenzy, dementia. 2. Vehement desire.

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