mania

English Thesaurus

1. an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action (noun.motive)

hypernym	:	irrational motive,
definition	:	a motivation that is inconsistent with reason or logic (noun.motive)

hyponym	:	agromania,
definition	:	an intense desire to be alone or out in the open (noun.motive)

hyponym	:	alcoholism, dipsomania, potomania,
definition	:	an intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess (noun.motive)

hyponym	:	egomania,
definition	:	an intense and irresistible love for yourself and concern for your own needs (noun.motive)

hyponym	:	kleptomania,
definition	:	an irresistible impulse to steal in the absence of any economic motive (noun.motive)

hyponym	:	logomania, logorrhea,
definition	:	pathologically excessive (and often incoherent) talking (noun.motive)

hyponym	:	monomania, possession,
definition	:	a mania restricted to one thing or idea (noun.motive)

hyponym	:	necromania, necrophilia, necrophilism,
definition	:	an irresistible sexual attraction to dead bodies (noun.motive)

hyponym	:	phaneromania,
definition	:	an irresistible desire to pick at superficial body parts (as in obsessive nail-biting) (noun.motive)

hyponym	:	pyromania,
definition	:	an uncontrollable desire to set fire to things (noun.motive)

hyponym	:	trichotillomania,
definition	:	an irresistible urge to pull out your own hair (noun.motive)

2. a mood disorder; an affective disorder in which the victim tends to respond excessively and sometimes violently (noun.state)

hypernym	:	affective disorder, emotional disorder, emotional disturbance, major affective disorder,
definition	:	any mental disorder not caused by detectable organic abnormalities of the brain and in which a major disturbance of emotions is predominant (noun.state)

hyponym	:	craze, delirium, frenzy, fury, hysteria,
definition	:	state of violent mental agitation (noun.state)

3. an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action (noun.motive)

derivation	:	frenzied, manic, frenzied, manic,
definition	:	affected with or marked by frenzy or mania uncontrolled by reason (adj.all)

derivation	:	frenzied, manic, frenzied, manic,
definition	:	affected with or marked by frenzy or mania uncontrolled by reason (adj.all)

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