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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
Bipolar disorder involves alternating episodes of depression and mania, a state where thoughts race, impulsive decisions feel logical, and sleep becomes almost optional.
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Essence, 23 Oct. 2025
Folklore suggested that its glow could spark mania in bipolar disorder, provoke seizures in people with epilepsy or trigger psychosis in those with schizophrenia.
—Joanna Fong-Isariyawongse, The Conversation, 21 Oct. 2025
Students and teachers prepared for the band's arrival with the band's legendary black-and-white face paint, and the city was soon engulfed in rock 'n' roll mania.
—Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 17 Oct. 2025
Unlike Monster, which attempts to absolve itself from feeding into Gein mania by focusing on the other writers and directors inspired by that serial killer, Devil in Disguise doesn’t try to implicate its audience in the sport of watching true crime.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2025
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Essence, 23 Oct. 2025
Folklore suggested that its glow could spark mania in bipolar disorder, provoke seizures in people with epilepsy or trigger psychosis in those with schizophrenia.
—Joanna Fong-Isariyawongse, The Conversation, 21 Oct. 2025
Students and teachers prepared for the band's arrival with the band's legendary black-and-white face paint, and the city was soon engulfed in rock 'n' roll mania.
—Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 17 Oct. 2025
Unlike Monster, which attempts to absolve itself from feeding into Gein mania by focusing on the other writers and directors inspired by that serial killer, Devil in Disguise doesn’t try to implicate its audience in the sport of watching true crime.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mania
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Having one copy of the gene roughly doubles or triples the chances of developing the common dementia, while two copies raises the risk by 10 times and lowers the average age of onset by five to 10 years, data shows.—
Melissa Rudy,
FOXNews.com,
7 Nov. 2025
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The entire extended family is very tight-knit, supporting Willis after he was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, a rare condition.—
Sari Hitchins,
Parents,
7 Nov. 2025
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There were no major returning actors or ongoing storylines, save for the Yautja’s somewhat inexplicable obsession with intergalactic trophy hunting, and most attempts to reboot the property failed to explain why this series should exist in the first place.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
7 Nov. 2025
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What’s lingering beneath the surface — jealousy, passion, obsession — is brought to life.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
7 Nov. 2025
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This insanity has to stop before anyone else gets hurt.—
Emma Bussey,
FOXNews.com,
6 Nov. 2025
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Though his legal team argued insanity, Guiteau was found guilty of murder in January 1882 and executed five months later.—
Allison DeGrushe,
Entertainment Weekly,
6 Nov. 2025
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Decades before Salem, hysteria over witchcraft was already sweeping through England – and perhaps nowhere more fervently than in the southeast, such as in the neighboring counties of Kent and Essex, which border London.—
James Frater,
CNN Money,
31 Oct. 2025
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Critics will predictably argue that those two positions are inherently linked; on the opposite side of the political spectrum, oil and gas partisans could point to Gates’ essay as proof that climate hysteria was misguided all along and that fossil use should continue unimpeded.—
Tim McDonnell,
semafor.com,
28 Oct. 2025
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What starts as a cathartic process spirals out-of-control, as the line between justice and madness blurs.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
6 Nov. 2025
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The American people will hate this madness, but that makes no difference to a president increasingly unmoored from reality.—
Newsweek Contributors,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
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Powers emphasizes that having auditory hallucinations doesn’t always indicate severe schizophrenia and that having a severe case of the condition doesn’t necessarily mean that a person will experience hallucinations.—
Hannah Seo,
Scientific American,
10 Nov. 2025
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Now, Vega works at a group home for people with schizophrenia, many of whom lost their SNAP food aid benefits when the ongoing shutdown froze funding from the US Department of Agriculture.—
Alaa Elassar,
CNN Money,
10 Nov. 2025
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“Mania.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mania. Accessed 16 Nov. 2025.
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