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 that is not safe or advantageous)
kinesomania
A compulsion for movement; an excessive desire to be on the move.
klazomania
In psychiatry, a compulsion to shout or compulsive shouting; usually a motor discharge phenomenon based on mesencephalic or other central nervous system irritation.
An irresistible tendency to steal, not because of a necessity, but as a result of a mental compulsion: Sam was concerned about the unusual amount of jewelry that he found in the cupboard and wondered if his partner was experiencing an episode of kleptomania and was stealing items from the flea markets.
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A person who is affected with the compulsion to steal even when it is not a necessity: The kleptomaniac was apprehended when he stole some items in the grocery store and left without paying for them even though he had plenty of money.
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Don’t worry if you’re a kleptomaniac, you can always take something for it.
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klopemania
An older form of kleptomania.
krauomania
A tic (nervous twitch) marked by rhythmic movements.
lagneuomania
1. A mental disorder characterized by lustful, sadistic, lewd, and lecherous actions.
2. Particularly, a sexual sadism in a man.
3. An abnormal preoccupation with lewd talk and actions.
2. Particularly, a sexual sadism in a man.
3. An abnormal preoccupation with lewd talk and actions.
lalomania
A compulsion to talk excessively.
lalomaniac
A descriptive term for a person who has a compulsion, or an abnormal desire, to talk excessively.
lavacultomania
A strong desire to gawk at or ogle people wearing bathing suits; also, ablutoskepsis.
lesbiamania
lesbiamaniac
An abnormal craving to forget what is happening in his or her current existence: Some people who have been unemployed and are very depressed can suffer from a condition of letheomania and lapse into taking drugs to lessen their helplessness.
An obsessive desire for, craving for, or fascination with narcotics: In the article Mr. Atherton was reading, letheomania seemed to be common among some students had a very strong longing for opium, for example.
A morbid or an abnormal longing for life-threatening narcotic drugs: Norman's brother was suffering from lethomania and, despite medical and psychological treatments, he could not overcome his obsessions or compulsive desires, to ingest drugs to ease his suffering.
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Cross references of word families that are related directly, or indirectly, to: "anger, angry; rage, wrath, fury; rave": fur-, furi-; ira-; lysso-; rab-, rav-.
