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Definition of Mania
1. Noun. An irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action.
Generic synonyms: Irrational Motive
Specialized synonyms: Agromania, Alcoholism, Dipsomania, Potomania, Egomania, Kleptomania, Logomania, Logorrhea, Monomania, Possession, Necromania, Necrophilia, Necrophilism, Phaneromania, Pyromania, Trichotillomania
Derivative terms: Manic
2. Noun. A mood disorder; an affective disorder in which the victim tends to respond excessively and sometimes violently.
Generic synonyms: Affective Disorder, Emotional Disorder, Emotional Disturbance, Major Affective Disorder
Specialized synonyms: Craze, Delirium, Frenzy, Fury, Hysteria
Derivative terms: Manic
Definition of Mania
1. n. Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity. Cf. Delirium.
Definition of Mania
1. Noun. Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity. ¹
2. Noun. Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; fanaticism ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mania
1. an excessive interest or enthusiasm [n -S]
Medical Definition of Mania
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Mania
Literary usage of Mania
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Lancet (1842)
"It was important to distinguish be- Mr. PROCTOR remarked, that in mania ...
mania »as dependent on inflammation of the corti- *jl su balance of the brain, ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1858)
"Of the remaining 53, the form of disease was: Acute mania, 1 ; chronic mania,
... The case of melancholia, that of periodic mania, and three of the cases of ..."
3. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1893)
"Melancholia and mania are two types of mentally diseased condition, ... On the
other hand mania is " a change of the self-consciousness in the direction of ..."
4. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1891)
"THE PATHOLOGY OF SUDDEN DEATH IN mania. Every asylum physician will recall the
condition of collapse which suddenly occurs in some cases of mania and which ..."
5. A Manual of Medical Jurisprudence by Alfred Swaine Taylor, John James Reese (1873)
"mania may take place suddenly, as after a violent moral shock, ... A person
affected with mania sometimes has a dread or fear of everything around him ..."
6. The Journal of Mental Science by Royal Medico-psychological Association (1872)
"On the Pathology and Symptoms of mania. CHAPTER VI. CHAPTER VI. ... CHAPTER X.
Legal Consequences of mania. On the Legal Relations of Moral mania. SECT. ..."
7. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1854)
"I of Periodic mania, 1 of Chronic mania, 7 of Dementia, 1 of Dementia with Epilepsy,
... Congestion of Membranes was noticed in 19 cases ; 2 of Acute mania, ..."
8. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Phthisical insanity is stated to be characterized by a short period of mania,
melancholia, or delusion, which soon passes into a mixture of subacute mania ..."
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