mania
/ˈmeɪ.ni.ə/ noun C1- Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity.
- Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; fanaticism.
- The state of abnormally elevated or irritable mood, arousal, and/or energy levels.
Plural manias
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Violence of temper approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the family, and in my stepfather’s case it had, I believe, been intensified by his long residence in the tropics.
For years I had gradually weaned him from that drug mania which had threatened once to check his remarkable career.
“He seems to have a mania for diamonds,” said Morcerf, smiling, “and I verily believe that, like Potemkin, he keeps his pockets filled, for the sake of strewing them along the road, as Tom Thumb did his flint stones.”
Some are affected with the mania of which you spoke just now, that of living again in their grandchildren.
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