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)
opiomania
Excessive craving for opium or opiates in general.
opsomania (noun)
1. A pathological or morbid yearning for delicacies or for some specific food.
2. A pathological craving for sweets, such as may occur in binge-eating syndrome.
3. A longing for a particular article of diet, or for highly seasoned food.
4. A morbid craving for rich foods and delicate fare.
2. A pathological craving for sweets, such as may occur in binge-eating syndrome.
3. A longing for a particular article of diet, or for highly seasoned food.
4. A morbid craving for rich foods and delicate fare.
opsomaniac (s), opsmaniacs (pl) (noun forms)
Those who love some particular kind of food to the point of insanity.
orchestromania
A compulsion to dance.
orchidomania
A craze for orchids OR an excessive fascination with testicles.
oreximania
1. A compulsion to eat or an excessive appetite for food.
2. An enormous increase in food consumption as a result of fearing that one is too thin.
3. The consumption of enormous quantities of food motivated by a fear of losing weight.
2. An enormous increase in food consumption as a result of fearing that one is too thin.
3. The consumption of enormous quantities of food motivated by a fear of losing weight.
ornithomania
An excessive fascination with birds.
paramania
An irresistible impulse to derive joy, or pleasure, from complaints.
paratereseomania, parateresiomania
A compulsion to see new sights and places.
parousiamania
An obsessive zeal or preoccupation with the second coming of Christ.
pathomania, pathomaniac
1. A morbid perversion of the natural feelings, affections, inclinations, and natural impulses without any remarkable disorder of the intellect; moral insanity.
2. Madness, insanity; moral insanity.
2. Madness, insanity; moral insanity.
peotillomania
1. Pseudomasturbation.
2. A nervous tic consisting of the constant pulling or the touching of one’s penis without masturbatory intention.
2. A nervous tic consisting of the constant pulling or the touching of one’s penis without masturbatory intention.
peromania
A compulsion for mutilation or maiming.
petalomania
An unusual multiplication of floral petals.
phagomania
An insatiable hunger or craving for food, or an obsessive preoccupation with the subject of eating.
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-.
