MANIA
Dictionary entry overview: What does mania mean?
• MANIA (noun)
The noun MANIA has 2 senses:
1. an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action
2. a mood disorder; an affective disorder in which the victim tends to respond excessively and sometimes violently
Familiarity information: MANIA used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• MANIA (noun)
Meaning:
An irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action
Classified under:
Nouns denoting goals
Synonyms:
cacoethes; mania; passion
Hypernyms ("mania" is a kind of...):
irrational motive (a motivation that is inconsistent with reason or logic)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mania"):
agromania (an intense desire to be alone or out in the open)
trichotillomania (an irresistible urge to pull out your own hair)
pyromania (an uncontrollable desire to set fire to things)
phaneromania (an irresistible desire to pick at superficial body parts (as in obsessive nail-biting))
necromania; necrophilia; necrophilism (an irresistible sexual attraction to dead bodies)
monomania; possession (a mania restricted to one thing or idea)
logomania; logorrhea (pathologically excessive (and often incoherent) talking)
kleptomania (an irresistible impulse to steal in the absence of any economic motive)
egomania (an intense and irresistible love for yourself and concern for your own needs)
alcoholism; dipsomania; potomania (an intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess)
Meaning:
A mood disorder; an affective disorder in which the victim tends to respond excessively and sometimes violently
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
manic disorder; mania
Hypernyms ("mania" is a kind of...):
affective disorder; emotional disorder; emotional disturbance; major affective disorder (any mental disorder not caused by detectable organic abnormalities of the brain and in which a major disturbance of emotions is predominant)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mania"):
craze; delirium; frenzy; fury; hysteria (state of violent mental agitation)
