Mania Synonyms

mānē-ə, mānyə
A subject or activity that inspires lively interest
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. craze
  2. enthusiasm
  3. passion
  4. rage
Serious mental illness or disorder impairing a person's capacity to function normally and safely
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. madness
  2. insanity
  3. obsession
  4. craze
  5. hysteria
  6. delirium
  7. derangement
  8. manic disorder
  9. frenzy
  10. lunacy
  11. brainsickness
  12. craziness
  13. dementia
  14. addiction
  15. disturbance
  16. cacoethes
  17. compulsion
  18. insaneness
  19. craziness. insanity
  20. disorder
  21. fascination
  22. mental illness
  23. fear
  24. fetish
  25. psychopathy
  26. fixation
  27. unbalance
  28. aberration
  29. infatuation
  30. alienation
  31. passion
  32. rage
An irrational preoccupation
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. fetish
  2. fixation
  3. passion
  4. obsession
  5. thing
  6. cacoethes
Synonyms:
(Adjective)
  1. delirious
  2. hysterical

Words Related to Mania

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Mania Sentence Examples

  • She has a perfect mania for counting.

  • Queen Maria, who had previously shown signs of religious mania, became wholly insane after 1788, owing to the deaths of Pedro III.

  • Jones had a mania for palace-breaking.

  • Venice; but on the 7th of July the assembly declared in favor of fusion with Piedmont, and Manin, who had been elected president resigned his powers to the royal com- Danicle Mania and missioners.

  • Du Bellay did not actually introduce the sonnet into French poetry, but he acclimatized it; and when the fashion of sonneteering became a mania he was one of the first to ridicule its excesses.

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