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Synonyms & Antonyms 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 for mania
- aberration,
- dementia,
- derangement,
- insanity,
- lunacy,
- madness,
- rage
- [archaic]
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2
something about which one is constantly thinking or concerned
- his wife was baffled and amused by his mania for old comic books
Synonyms for mania
- fetish
- (also fetich),
- fixation,
- idée fixe,
- obsession,
- preoccupation,
- prepossession
Words Related to mania
- appetite,
- cacoëthes,
- compulsion,
- craving,
- desire,
- drive,
- enthusiasm,
- fascination,
- hankering,
- hunger,
- infatuation,
- itch,
- longing,
- lust,
- passion,
- pining,
- thirst,
- urge,
- yearning,
- yen
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The first known use of mania was in the 14th century
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