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)
1. A form of insanity shown in a patient's obsessive preoccupation with only one idea or one topic: After the nightmare, June suffered from monomania in which she was totally irrational and afraid of losing her baby.
2. A psychosis marked by the limitation of mental action in a particular topic, as the delusion in paranoia: Because Susan was constantly afraid of losing her job and not able to think or act on anything else, she went to the doctor who diagnosed her as suffering from monomania.
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2. A psychosis marked by the limitation of mental action in a particular topic, as the delusion in paranoia: Because Susan was constantly afraid of losing her job and not able to think or act on anything else, she went to the doctor who diagnosed her as suffering from monomania.
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A reference to a patient who has a form of insanity in which he or she is irrational regarding only one subject or a single idea: Being a monomaniac, Fred spent all his money on everything concerned with fitness and spent all of his time training at the gym!
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monomaniacal (adjective)
A reference to or a descriptive term for someone who has an intense concentration on or exaggerated enthusiasm for a single subject or idea.
monomaniacally (adverb)
Descriptive of being obsessed with or fixated with one idea or object; either negatively or positively: "She behaves monomaniacally whenever she is told that she will have to leave her apartment; especially, when there is any hint that she will have to move to a nursing home."
musicomania
An excessive fondness for or an insane love of music.
An unusual or abnormal fondness for or interest in mice.
1. An excessive interest in myths and incredible stories and fabrications: Alice, who had an enormous curiosity about fables and legends and spent all her time reading them, was seen by her family as experiencing a bout of mythomania!
2. A pathological lying or exaggerating about something that isn't true: The actress didn't have many friends because of a case of mythomania, always making up fantastic stories which all turned out to be false tales!
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2. A pathological lying or exaggerating about something that isn't true: The actress didn't have many friends because of a case of mythomania, always making up fantastic stories which all turned out to be false tales!
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mythomaniac
One who has an abnormal or pathological tendency to lie or to exaggerate.
1. A morbid desire to gain relief from painful stimuli; usually, through some pharmacological agent; such as, morphine, opium, etc.), but also occasionally through psychic measures involving hypnosis.
2. An uncontrollable craving for narcotic drugs.
2. An uncontrollable craving for narcotic drugs.
Someone who suffers from an uncontrollable craving for a drug that produces drowsiness or deep sleep during normal waking hours.
An insane craving for an unconsciousness that is produced by a drug.
A morbid interest in ships or large bodies of water.
necromania
1. A morbid tendency to dwell with, or a longing for, death.
2. A morbid attraction to dead bodies.
2. A morbid attraction to dead bodies.
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.
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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-.
