MANIAS Synonyms: 48 Similar and Opposite Words

manias

noun

plural of mania

as in obsessions

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 manias Legendary billionaire investor Howard Marks, cofounder and cochairman of Oaktree Capital Management, has spent decades navigating financial manias, sea changes in interest rates, and the shifting pendulums of investor psychology. —

Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 3 Mar. 2026 The next phase of crypto's growth won't revolve around sleek marketing or speculative manias. —

Annabelle Huang, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025 The reality is that the global network has become a transmission mechanism for all kinds of manias and panics, just as the combination of printing and literacy temporarily increased the prevalence of millenarian sects and witch crazes. —

Niall Ferguson, Foreign Affairs, 15 Aug. 2017

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obsessions

Noun

As the bustling capital of Japan, Tokyo is home to hundreds of museums, ranging from august institutions with endless catalogs of national treasures to niche collections of curious obsessions (Looking at you, Meguro Parasitological Museum).

— Jessica Kozuka, Travel + Leisure, 13 Mar. 2026
For a man who did such fundamental research in surface chemistry and who won the Nobel Prize, there is something almost tragic about the scientific obsessions that took hold of him in his later years.

— Natalia Sánchez Loayza, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2026