Meaning of MANIA
| Pronunciation: | | 'meyneeu
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- [n] an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action
- [n] a mood disorder; an affective disorder in which the victim tends to respond excessively and sometimes violently
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| | Synonyms: | | cacoethes, manic disorder, passion |
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| | See Also: | | affective disorder, agromania, alcoholism, craze, delirium, dipsomania, egomania, emotional disorder, emotional disturbance, frenzy, fury, hysteria, irrational motive, kleptomania, logomania, logorrhea, major affective disorder, monomania, necromania, necrophilia, necrophilism, phaneromania, possession, potomania, pyromania, trichotillomania | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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}.
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| | Definition: | | The phase of bipolar mental disorder characterized by intense elation, excitability and hyperactivity. |
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| | Definition: | | Mania is a state of mood characterized by elation, flight of ideas, and psychomotor excitation. |
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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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