mania
[noun]
Synonyms:
- madness, delirium, dementia, derangement, insanity, lunacy
- obsession, craze, fad (informal), fetish, fixation, passion, preoccupation, thing (informal)

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Related Words: craze, enthusiasm, fancy, fascination, infatuation, passion, compulsion, fixed idea, hang-up, idée fixe

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

ma‧ni‧a /ˈmeɪniə/ noun [uncountable and countable]
[Date: 1300-1400; Language: Late Latin; Origin: Greek, from mainesthai 'to be mentally ill']

1. a strong desire for something or interest in something, especially one that affects a lot of people at the same time Synonym : craze
mania for
the Victorian mania for butterfly collecting
religious/football/disco etc mania
Keep-fit mania has hit some of the girls in the office.

2. medical a serious mental illness ⇒ manic

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

mania
noun
I. extreme enthusiasm for sth
ADJ. gambling, railway, sex, etc.
VERB + MANIA have
PREP. ~ for She had a mania for fast cars.

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

mania
II. serious mental illness
ADJ. collective The violence of the crowd can only be explained as a sign of some collective mania.
religious
VERB + MANIA suffer from
PHRASES a state of mania

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲