Synonyms of mania

mania

noun

ˈmā-nē-ə 

1

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• dementia
• insanity
• hysteria
• madness
• schizophrenia
• instability
• paranoia
• rage
• derangement
• lunacy
• frenzy
• aberration
• psychosis
• delusion
• neurosis
• delirium
• obsession
• irrationality
• unreasonableness
• phobia
• hypomania
• abnormality
• monomania
• hallucination
• hallucinosis
• senile dementia
• unsoundness
• dementedness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• sanity
• mind
• rationality
• lucidity
• saneness
• reasonableness
• normality
• soundness
• reasonability
• rationalness

2

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• obsession
• problem
• preoccupation
• fascination
• fixation
• enthusiasm
• fetish
• monomania
• prepossession
• idée fixe
• thirst
• compulsion
• infatuation
• longing
• trip
• craving
• desire
• hunger
• appetite
• complex
• tendency
• yearning
• idiosyncrasy
• lust
• urge
• passion
• quirk
• penchant
• yen
• predisposition
• predilection
• proclivity
• itch
• drive
• propensity
• hang-up
• pining
• inclination
• hankering
• cacoëthes
• disposition
• bent
• partiality
• leaning

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• indifference
• apathy
• disregard
• nonchalance
• insouciance
• unconcern
• disinterestedness
• unconcernedness

Example Sentences

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