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)
eleuthromania
Hypersexuality in females.
emetomania
A morbid desire to vomit, usually an hysterical symptom.
empleomania
A compulsive desire to hold public office or some public employment.
empleomaniac
A person with the compulsion to hold public office.
empresiomania
Another term for pyromania [abnormal interest in fire].
enomania
An abnormal interest in wine either as a collector or as a drinker.
enoptromania
1. An overwhelming desire to use mirrors.
2. An abnormal use of mirrors.
2. An abnormal use of mirrors.
enoptromaniac
Someone with a compulsion to examine herself or himself in a mirror or mirrors.
enosimania
Obsessional belief of the patient that he/she has committed an unpardonable sin.
entheomania
Obsessive zeal for religion or demonomania; religious insanity.
entomomania
An abnormal or compulsive fascination with insects.
epomania
A rage for writing epics.
erasionomania
A compulsion to work.
eremiomania
Irresistible craving for quiet or solitude.
eretodromomania
A compulsion to wander.
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-.
