MANIA Synonyms: 89 Similar and Opposite Words

mania

noun

ˈmā-nē-ə

Definition of mania

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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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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 Filipino fans have enthusiastically shown up to support Eala everywhere she’s played over the past year, and the mania peaked this summer. — Lev Akabas, Sportico.com, 1 Sep. 2026 Two years before recent Hoosier mania about the Chicago Bears possibly making Northwest Indiana their new home, Valparaiso teacher and author Shifa Saltagi Safadi was already writing a book that included her son’s obsession with the Windy City team. — Philip Potempa, Chicago Tribune, 30 Aug. 2026 Intel is a slightly different case because it’s also caught up in the mania for chip stocks as spending on artificial intelligence creates extreme demand for semiconductors. — Norah Rami, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2026 What's your relationship to paparazzi and social media mania, given you’ve been in the spotlight for so long? — Kalia Richardson, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for mania

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Noun

Among the people who had donated their brains to research, nearly 60% had been diagnosed with dementia, while just under 19% had a neurodegenerative condition listed as a cause of death.

— Mike McRae September 15, New Atlas, 15 Sep. 2026
As for those extra 13 dementia-free years, the NYU study reinforces that what’s good for the heart is good for the brain.

— Lauran Neergaard, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2026

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Centuries before the internet infiltrated almost every aspect of daily life, Swift described how scientific and technological advances could lead to chronic distraction by producing an obsession with what could be rather than what is.

— Dónal Gill, The Dial, 8 Sep. 2026
An obsession with discipline—both in the process and finished pieces—has driven her to deliver numerous competition wins for saddlery and wearable arts, and exhibition honors at London's Victoria and Albert Museum.

— Clare Coulson, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of obsession

Noun

Fewer than one per cent of Americans charged with felonies plead insanity, and the great majority of those who do have previously been hospitalized with a serious psychiatric condition.

— Ian Parker, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026
And the polarizing trial of Lindsay Clancy, a labor-and-delivery nurse who pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity after killing her three children in 2023, has captivated the country since July.

— Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of insanity

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Thomasin McKenzie plays a young woman, Alyce, steeped in her own trauma and loss, who attaches herself to the ploughman, and her ability to express wide-eyed, barely contained hysteria and fear is unmatched.

— Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2026
Verrett inserted himself into the mentions by spreading unprompted racial hysteria.

— Bobby Burack OutKick, FOXNews.com, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of hysteria

Noun

With one of the regional sites next April moving from Bridgeport to PeoplesBank Arena, and another regional scheduled for Springfield, UConn has a chance to really extend the madness past March around here.

— Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 16 Sep. 2026
Prison interviews and recovered footage slowly reveal how deeply entangled the two men had become in their shared madness.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 11 Sep. 2026

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