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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 concern is whether such stocks shot too high, too fast because of AI mania, and their careening moves have sometimes reversed direction by the hour.
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ABC News, 14 June 2026
The exhibition centers on a film created with generative AI trained on an archive that includes fairy folklore and the Victorian mania for invention.
—Eugenie Brinkema, ARTnews.com, 14 June 2026
The concern is whether such stocks shot too high, too fast because of AI mania, and their careening moves have sometimes reversed direction by the hour.
—Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2026
People with bipolar disorder cycle through extended periods of mania and depression, often accompanied by grandiosity or elevated self-esteem during manic phases.
—Angela Haupt, Time, 11 June 2026
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ABC News, 14 June 2026
The exhibition centers on a film created with generative AI trained on an archive that includes fairy folklore and the Victorian mania for invention.
—Eugenie Brinkema, ARTnews.com, 14 June 2026
The concern is whether such stocks shot too high, too fast because of AI mania, and their careening moves have sometimes reversed direction by the hour.
—Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2026
People with bipolar disorder cycle through extended periods of mania and depression, often accompanied by grandiosity or elevated self-esteem during manic phases.
—Angela Haupt, Time, 11 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mania
Noun
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All had extremely low omega-3 levels and at least one risk factor for dementia, such as obesity, sedentary lifestyle, high blood pressure or cholesterol.—
Sandee LaMotte,
CNN Money,
18 June 2026
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Emma has taken on a caregiver role for Bruce in the last four years after he was diagnosed with aphasia and stepped away from acting in 2022 and received a frontotemporal dementia (FTD) diagnosis the following year.—
Tommy McArdle,
PEOPLE,
18 June 2026
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But his absolute obsession with Marilyn Monroe differentiates him from others.—
Jim Clash,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2026
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But the obsession goes gruesomely awry.—
Maureen Dowd,
Mercury News,
18 June 2026
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Bland was obsessed with religion, but that did not amount to insanity, the prosecutor argued.—
Grethel Aguila,
Miami Herald,
24 June 2026
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Part of what drew him to the case, Burton said, was that many of the issues relevant then are still relevant today, like the death penalty, the use of the insanity defense, parole and rehabilitation.—
Lillie Davidson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
23 June 2026
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It was judged to be some sort of mass hysteria.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
22 June 2026
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The virtual hysteria over the muskrat invasion resulted in Britain’s first legislation to target a non-native invasive species.—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
22 June 2026
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Is this just a salary dump, or is there a method to the madness for the Wolves?—
Zach Harper,
New York Times,
23 June 2026
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Welcome to the Amazon Prime Day 2026 madness!—
Kaitlin Clapinski,
InStyle,
22 June 2026
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Prosecutors said Khan was diagnosed with schizophrenia at an early age and struggled with psychological outbreaks, short temper and a lack of emotional control.—
Jason Green,
Mercury News,
18 June 2026
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Research has also shown that AI chatbots reproduce stigmatized messages about certain mental health conditions such as alcoholism and schizophrenia.—
Allison Parshall,
Scientific American,
18 June 2026
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“Mania.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mania. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.
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