mania

mania

noun

Definition of MANIA

1

a serious mental disorder that prevents one from living a safe and normal life <that form of mania often manifests itself in excessive and often incoherent talkativeness>

Synonyms aberration, dementia, derangement, lunacy, madness, mania, rage [archaic]

Related Words neurosis, psychosis; instability, irrationality, unreasonableness; delirium, frenzy, hysteria; hallucinosis, hypomania, paranoia, schizophrenia; senile dementia; delusion, hallucination; monomania, obsession, phobia; abnormality, dementedness, unsoundness

Near Antonyms lucidity, rationality, rationalness, reasonability, reasonableness; normality, soundness

Antonyms mind, saneness, sanity

2

something about which one is constantly thinking or concerned <his wife was baffled and amused by his mania for old comic books>

Synonyms fetish (also fetich), idée fixe, mania, obsession, preoccupation, prepossession

Related Words monomania; complex, hang-up, problem, trip; appetite, cacoëthes, compulsion, craving, desire, drive, enthusiasm, fascination, hankering, hunger, infatuation, itch, longing, lust, passion, pining, thirst, urge, yearning, yen; idiosyncrasy, quirk; bent, disposition, inclination, leaning, partiality, penchant, predilection, predisposition, proclivity, propensity, tendency

Near Antonyms apathy, disinterestedness, disregard, indifference, insouciance, nonchalance, unconcern, unconcernedness