Synonyms of mania

mania

noun

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

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

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

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

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