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Definitions for Mania

[1] excessive excitement or enthusiasm; craze: The country has a mania for soccer.
[2] Psychiatry . manic disorder.
[3] an ancient Roman goddess of the dead.
[4] a combining form of mania (megalomania ); extended to mean “enthusiasm, often of an extreme and transient nature,” for that specified by the initial element (bibliomania ).
[5] a mental disorder characterized by great excitement and occasionally violent behaviour See also manic-depressive
[6] an obsessional enthusiasm or partiality a mania for mushrooms
[7] indicating extreme desire or pleasure of a specified kind or an abnormal excitement aroused by something kleptomania ; nymphomania ; pyromania

Words related to Mania

craziness, fascination, lunacy, rage, passion, frenzy, craze, enthusiasm, dementia, obsession, craving, fad, infatuation, desire, bee, partiality, aberration, hang-up, furor, fancy

Words nearby Mania

manhood, manhood suffrage, manhunt, mani, mani-pedi, mania, maniac, maniacal, manic, manic depression, manic disorder

Origin of Mania

1350–1400; Middle English < Latin < Greek manía madness; akin to maenad, mind

Other words from Mania

hy·per·ma·ni·a , noun
sub·ma·ni·a , noun

Word origin for Mania

-maniafrom mania

Synonyms for Mania

craving, craze, craziness, dementia, enthusiasm, fad, fascination, frenzy, infatuation, lunacy, obsession, passion, rage, aberration, bee, bug, compulsion, delirium, derangement, desire, disorder, fancy, fetish, furor, grabber, hang-up, insanity, monomania, partiality, preoccupation, thing, tiger, ax to grind, bee in bonnet, bug in ear, fixed idea, idée fixe, on the brain, tiger by the tail