mania-, -mania, -maniac, -maniacal, -manic, -manically, -maniacally +
(Greek: a specific mental disorder or obsessive preoccupation with something; madness, frenzy; obsession, or abnormal desire for or with something or someone; also, an excessive enthusiasm or fondness for something)
necromaniac
1. Someone who has a pathological preoccupation with dead bodies or the subject of death.
2. A person with a morbid attraction to dead bodies.
3. Anyone who has a morbid tendency to long for, or to desire, death.
2. A person with a morbid attraction to dead bodies.
3. Anyone who has a morbid tendency to long for, or to desire, death.
nepiomania
An abnormally strong desire by a woman to have a baby.
nesomania
nesomania, nesomaniac
An intense obsession with islands.
nesomaniac
netomania, internetomania
Coined by psychiatrist, Nathan Shapira, of the University of Cincinnati.
Dr. Shapira thinks that excessive online use should be considered not as a separate addiction but as a disorder of impulse control, in the same category as kleptomania or compulsive shopping. (As seen in USA Today, June 1, 1998).
niphomania
An abnormal desire to have snow and to be active in snowy surroundings.
noctimania or noctomania
An intense fascination with night as opposed to daylight.
noctimania, noctomania
An intense fascination with night as opposed to daylight.
nosomania
1. An obsession with imagined disease; such as, hypochondriacism or hypochondriasis.
2. An unfounded morbid belief that one is suffering from some special disease.
2. An unfounded morbid belief that one is suffering from some special disease.
nostomania
1. An exaggerated form of nostalgia.
2. An intense homesickness or an irresistible urge to return home.
3. An overwhelming desire to return home or to go back to familiar places.
4. Homesickness as an illness.
2. An intense homesickness or an irresistible urge to return home.
3. An overwhelming desire to return home or to go back to familiar places.
4. Homesickness as an illness.
nostomaniac
Someone who has an irresistible or overwhelming desire to return home or go back to familiar places.
nudomania
1. A compulsion for nudity; a strong desire to be in the nude.
2. An abnormal interest in nudity.
2. An abnormal interest in nudity.
nymphomania, grave
Severe, active nymphomania in contrast to slight, platonic, or lesser nymphomania.
nymphomania, nymphomaniac, nymphomaniacal
1. A feminine mental disease characterized by some kind of morbid and uncontrollable desire for sex.
2. An abnormal, excessive, insatiable sexual desire in the female; the counterpart of satyriasis in a male.
2. An abnormal, excessive, insatiable sexual desire in the female; the counterpart of satyriasis in a male.
Synonymous terms include: andromania; cytheromania; estromania; metromania; tentigo venerea; thelygonia; female hypersexuality.
You can find self-scoring quizzes over many of the words in this subject area by going to this Compulsive Behavior page.
Cross references of word families that are related directly, or indirectly, to: "anger, angry; rage, wrath, fury; rave": fur-, furi-; ira-; lysso-; rab-, rav-.
