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as in dementia
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
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as in obsession
something about which one is constantly thinking or concerned
his wife was baffled and amused by his mania for old comic books
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Recent Examples of mania
The proclamation held water — turning said pink into a veritable sensation by way of the Millennial Pink mania, which made everything from Paul Smith’s Melrose Avenue Pink Wall to Louis Vuitton’s 2016 runway looks into a headline (and, in the case of the latter, an influencer magnet).
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Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 15 Jan. 2026
According to Daniel and multiple family members, the 52-year-old had no history of mania or psychosis before encountering Meta AI.
—Maggie Harrison Dupré, Futurism, 15 Jan. 2026
This year, the voting body once again tried to reinvent itself with a new category (Best Podcast) while still pretending to offer a peek into Hollywood glamour, and the resulting ceremony was a lot of mania and little coherence.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2026
The pistachio-mania doesn’t stop there with Starbucks’ new Iced Dubai Chocolate Matcha and Iced Dubai Chocolate Mocha.
—Sabrina Weiss, PEOPLE, 8 Jan. 2026
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Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 15 Jan. 2026
According to Daniel and multiple family members, the 52-year-old had no history of mania or psychosis before encountering Meta AI.
—Maggie Harrison Dupré, Futurism, 15 Jan. 2026
This year, the voting body once again tried to reinvent itself with a new category (Best Podcast) while still pretending to offer a peek into Hollywood glamour, and the resulting ceremony was a lot of mania and little coherence.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2026
The pistachio-mania doesn’t stop there with Starbucks’ new Iced Dubai Chocolate Matcha and Iced Dubai Chocolate Mocha.
—Sabrina Weiss, PEOPLE, 8 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mania
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Bruce was diagnosed with dementia in 2023 and has been living separately from his family with full-time care since 2025, as the couple has two young girls living at home.—
Alejandra Gularte,
Vulture,
30 Jan. 2026
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Under the program, younger inmates are trained to care for elderly prisoners living with dementia.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Jan. 2026
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In Short’s case, the flattening is particularly egregious, because the inchoate facts of her life are shoehorned into the obsessions of amateur sleuths who continue to get those facts wrong.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Jan. 2026
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Now that Musk has massively tarnished the brand with his public embrace of far-right ideologies, putting a major dent in its cars’ desirability, and competition in the space is stronger than ever, particularly from China, the richest man in the world is ready to move on to his next shiny obsession.—
Victor Tangermann,
Futurism,
29 Jan. 2026
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What’s that old saying about the definition of insanity.—
Editorial,
Boston Herald,
25 Jan. 2026
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In that case, Bojeh was found not guilty by reason of insanity and later released under conditional supervision.—
Sarah Rumpf-Whitten,
FOXNews.com,
23 Jan. 2026
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Or perhaps that is the concern conjured by the hysteria of Y2K—with its fads of fears pumped by a skepticism over technology and wars people could not hold so freshly after the recession of the early 1990s.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Jan. 2026
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However, after the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, anti-Japanese hysteria spread across the United States.—
Jessica Alvarado Gamez,
Denver Post,
27 Jan. 2026
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Set into motion by an innocuous wish, the James family is forced to explore their generational differences, intra-marital conflicts, raging hormones, and professional anxieties, in a complicated web of body-swapping madness.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
27 Jan. 2026
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The documentary focuses on the inhabitants of Antarctica, and captures an apparent moment of madness within a colony of Adélie penguins, who endure scathingly harsh conditions in the icy wasteland.—
Dani Di Placido,
Forbes.com,
26 Jan. 2026
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The current edition, DSM-5-TR, contains more than 300 distinct mental disorders such as schizophrenia, obsessive compulsive disorder and alcohol use disorder.—
Jen Christensen,
CNN Money,
28 Jan. 2026
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But providers might not have enough information available to make a correct diagnosis; an emergency room doctor treating someone experiencing a psychotic episode likely doesn’t have the capacity to know if their diagnosis should be schizophrenia, bipolar I or something else.—
Allison Parshall,
Scientific American,
28 Jan. 2026
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“Mania.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mania. Accessed 3 Feb. 2026.
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