Mania
['meɪnɪə] or ['menɪə]
Definition
(noun.) an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action.
(noun.) a mood disorder; an affective disorder in which the victim tends to respond excessively and sometimes violently.
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Definition
(n.) Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity. Cf. Delirium.
(n.) Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; as, the tulip mania.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
[n. missing?] [1]. Raging madness, violent insanity.[2]. Vehement desire.
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Definition
n. violent madness: insanity: excessive or unreasonable desire.—n. Mā′niac a person affected with mania: a madman.—adj. raving mad.—adj. Maniacal (ma-nī′a-kal).—adv. Manī′acally.
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Examples
- For years I had gradually weaned him from that drug mania which had threatened once to check his remarkable career. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- That is a costly mania for a manufacturer. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- My dear Roylands, said Crispin impatiently, Caliphronas and his past life is becoming quite a mania with you. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- He was possessed with a mania for patronizing Yankee ingenuity, and seeing his friends fitly furnished forth. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- He was wishing to get the better of his attachment to herself, she just recovering from her mania for Mr. Elton. Jane Austen. Emma.
- There is positively a mania among some of them for sending it to England. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- On the one hand he's had religious mania, and on the other, he is fascinated by obscenity. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I am almost certain that it is trash; but I will be still more assured, lest the mania of scribbling should in some moment of poverty attack me again. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- He has a mania for shooting people. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- An examination showed she had indeed developed mania of a dangerous and permanent form. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Occasionally he recognizes the wilful character of politics: then he shakes his head, climbs into an ivory tower and deplores the moonshine, the religious manias and the passions of the mob. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Editor: Will