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mania, manias
1. Mental derangement characterized by great excitement, delusions and hallucinations and, in its extreme stages, by great violence.
2. A period of great excitement affecting a body of people.
3. An emotional disorder characterized by some euphoria or irritability, increased psychomotor activity, rapid speech, flight of ideas, decreased need for sleep, distractibility, grandiosity, and poor judgment.
This entry is located in the following unit: mania-, -mania, -maniac, -maniacal, -manic, -manically, -maniacally (page 15)
(two separate units where one is dealing with phobias and the other one presents manias)