mania
IPA: mˈeɪniʌ
noun
- Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity.
- Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; fanaticism.
- 2013-07-20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
- (psychiatry) The state of abnormally elevated or irritable mood, arousal, and/or energy levels.
- (Roman mythology) The goddess of the dead and ghosts.
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Examples of "mania" in Sentences
- The man was a popular movie mania.
- The country has a mania for soccer.
- It is the companion to the title Baja Mania.
- It's the mania that really closer to the core.
- This becomes clear with the advent of the queue mania.
- There was a mania witnessed at the store over the weekend.
- I searched at the height of the mania and was unsuccessful.
- He was involved with the lottery mania in the United States.
- It is the struggle of people living the mania of the civil war.
- List mania is at its highest before holiday seasons: summer and winter.
- Twilight mania is encompassing all aspects of our entertainment culture.
- It is used in the treatment of psychoses including mania and schizophrenia.
- Cat mania is also becoming a business for some people, as Yoshimura-san explains.
- But I also think that this off-shore drilling mania is a political propaganda adopted by McCain.
- You made your fan film during the height of Matrix-mania; is that what inspired you to make the film?
- OK, hopefully the thought has crossed more than my mind that this whole Obama-mania is in a word, Messianic.
- Lots of "Avatar" mania is incoming starting tomorrow, so lock your browsers on MTV. com if you want to keep up with the latest.
- "Obama" mania is getting attention is because he's an educated black man with the Democratic nomination for President of the United States of America.
- While no doubt the abrupt fall has caught some traders with big losses, the bigger danger is a long-term mania that leads to a far bigger misallocation of capital.