mania

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: Ma=ni=a

CIDE DICTIONARY

mania, n. [L. mania, Gr. , fr. to rage; cf. OE. manie, F. manie. Cf. Mind, n., Necromancy.].

•  Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity. Cf. Delirium.  [1913 Webster]
•  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.

Syn. -- Insanity; derangement; madness; lunacy; alienation; aberration; delirium; frenzy. See Insanity.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

mania, 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

THESAURUS

mania

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

ROGET THESAURUS

mania

Desire

N desire, wish, fancy, fantasy, want, need, exigency, mind, inclination, leaning, bent, animus, partiality, penchant, predilection, propensity, willingness, liking, love, fondness, relish, longing, hankering, inkling, solicitude, anxiety, yearning, coveting, aspiration, ambition, vaulting ambition, eagerness, zeal, ardor, empressement, breathless impatience, overanxiety, impetuosity, appetite, appetition, appetence, appetency, sharp appetite, keenness, hunger, stomach, twist, thirst, thirstiness, drouth, mouthwatering, itch, itching, prurience, cacoethes, cupidity, lust, concupiscence, edge of appetite, edge of hunger, torment of Tantalus, sweet tooth, lickerish tooth, itching palm, longing eye, wistful eye, sheep's eye, greed, voracity, passion, rage, furore, mania, manie, inextinguishable desire, dipsomania, kleptomania, lover, amateur, votary, devotee, aspirant, solicitant, candidate, applicant, supplicant, cormorant, desideratum, want, a consummation devoutly to be wished, attraction, magnet, allurement, fancy, temptation, seduction, fascination, prestige, height of one's ambition, idol, whim, whimsy, whimsey, maggot, hobby, hobby-horse, Fortunatus's cap, wishing cap, wishing stone, wishing well, desirous, desiring, inclined, partial to, fain, wishful, optative, anxious, wistful, curious, at a loss for, sedulous, solicitous, craving, hungry, sharp-set, peckish, ravening, with an empty stomach, esurient, lickerish, thirsty, athirst, parched with thirst, pinched with hunger, famished, dry, drouthy, hungry as a hunter, hungry as a hawk, hungry as a horse, hungry as a church mouse, hungry as a bear, greedy, unsatisfied, unsated, unslaked, unsaturated, eager, avid, keen, burning, fervent, ardent, agog, all agog, breathless, impatient, bent on, intent on, set on, bent upon, intent upon, set upon, mad after, enrage, rabid, dying for, devoured by desire, aspiring, ambitious, vaulting, skyaspiring, high-reaching, desirable, desired, in demand, pleasing, appetizing, appetible, tantalizing, wistfully, fain, Int, would that, would that it were!, O for!, esto perpetual, the wish being father to the thought, sua cuique voluptas, hoc erat in votis, the mouth watering, the fingers itching, aut Caesar aut nullus, Cassius has a lean and hungry look, hungry as the grave, I was born to other things, not what we wish but what we want, such joy ambition finds, the sea hath bounds but deep desire hath none, ubi mel ibi apes.

Insanity

N insanity, disordered reason, disordered intellect, diseased mind, unsound mind, abnormal mind, derangement, unsoundness, psychosis, neurosis, cognitive disorder, affective disorder, insanity, lunacy, madness, mania, rabies, furor, mental alienation, aberration, paranoia, schizophrenia, dementation, dementia, demency, phrenitis, phrensy, frenzy, raving, incoherence, wandering, delirium, calenture of the brain, delusion, hallucination, lycanthropy, brain storm, vertigo, dizziness, swimming, sunstroke, coup de soleil, siriasis, fanaticism, infatuation, craze, oddity, eccentricity, twist, monomania (caprice), kleptodipsomania, hypochondriasis, melancholia, depression, clinical depression, severe depression, hysteria, amentia, screw loose, tile loose, slate loose, bee in one's bonnet, rats in the upper story, dotage, insane, mad, lunatic, loony, crazy, crazed, aliene, non compos mentis, not right, cracked, touched, bereft of reason, all possessed, unhinged, unsettled in one's mind, insensate, reasonless, beside oneself, demented, daft, phrenzied, frenzied, frenetic, possessed, possessed with a devil, deranged, maddened, moonstruck, shatterpated, mad-brained, scatter brained, shatter brained, crackbrained, touched, tetched, off one's head, maniacal, delirious, lightheaded, incoherent, rambling, doting, wandering, frantic, raving, stark staring mad, stark raving mad, wild-eyed, berserk, delusional, hallucinatory, corybantic, dithyrambic, rabid, giddy, vertiginous, wild, haggard, mazed, flighty, distracted, distraught, depressed, agitated, hyped up, bewildered, mad as a March hare, mad as a hatter, of unsound mind, touched in one's head, wrong in one's head, not right in one's head, not in one's right mind, not right in one's wits, upper story, out of one's mind, out of one's wits, out of one's skull, far gone, out of one's senses, out of one's wits, not in one's right mind, fanatical, infatuated, odd, eccentric, hypped, hyppish, spaced out, imbecile, silly, like one possessed, the mind having lost its balance, the reason under a cloud, tet exaltee, tet montee, ira furor brevis est, omnes stultos insanire.