单词 | mania |
释义 | manian. 1. a. Originally: madness, particularly of a kind characterized by uncontrolled, excited, or aggressive behaviour. Frequently contrasted with melancholia. Later, in Psychiatry: spec. one of the aspects of bipolar (manic-depressive) mood disorder, characterized particularly by euphoria, grandiose thought, rapid speech expressing loosely connected thoughts (flight of ideas), decreased need for sleep, increased physical activity, and sometimes delusions or hallucinations.persecution, religious mania, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > mania maniec1385 madnessa1398 maniaa1398 the mind > emotion > excitement > nervous excitement > [noun] fever1340 motiona1398 quotidian?a1439 rufflea1535 commotion1581 fret1582 hurry1600 puddering1603 tumultuousnessa1617 trepidation1625 feverishness1638 boilingc1660 fermentationc1660 tumult1663 ferment1672 stickle1681 fuss1705 whirl1707 flurry1710 sweat1715 fluster1728 pucker1740 flutter1741 flustration1747 flutteration1753 tremor1753 swithera1768 twitteration1775 state1781 stew1806 scrow1808 tumultuating1815 flurrification1822 tew1825 purr1842 pirr1856 tête montée1859 go1866 faff1874 poultry flutter1876 palaver1878 thirl1879 razzle-dazzle1885 nervism1887 flurry-scurry1888 fikiness1889 foment1889 dither1891 swivet1892 flusterment1895 tither1896 overwroughtness1923 mania1925 stumer1932 tizzy1935 two and eight1938 snit1939 tizz1953 tiswas1960 wahala1966 the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > mania > specifically in psychiatry mania1925 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 81 Þese passiouns beþ diuers: madnes þat hatte mania & madnes þat hatte malencolia. a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 266 Wiþinne iij. daies Mania come to hir, and was oute of hir witt. c1425 tr. J. Arderne Treat. Fistula (Sloane 6) (1910) 57 (MED) Þe emoroydez..preserueþ þe body fro many sekenez aduste and corrupte, as is Mania, malencolia, pleuresis, [etc.]. 1526 Grete Herball Gloss. sig. Ddiiv/2 Mania is a madnesse, as whan it behoueth that ye pacient be bounde, or ellys he wolde bere euery body and breke al thynges a sonder. 1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 207 Some in Mania or Melancholy madnesse, have attempted the same. 1786 ‘A. Pasquin’ Children of Thespis i. 39 As the Magi their foul incantations prepare, And with seeds of the mania impregnate the air! 1817 J. M. Good Physiol. Syst. Nosol. 278 Parr..makes Vesania the genus, and arranges melancholia, mania, and even oneirodynia as separate species under it. 1853 W. B. Carpenter Princ. Human Physiol. (ed. 4) §830 The state of Mania..is usually characterized by the combination of complete derangement of the intellectual powers, with passionate excitement upon every point which in the least degree affects the feelings. 1925 J. Riviere et al. tr. S. Freud Coll. Papers IV. 164 The most remarkable peculiarity of melancholia, and one most in need of explanation, is the tendency it displays to turn into mania accompanied by a completely opposite symptomatology. 1968 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 114 1525/1 If mania and depression are at opposite poles, then treatment should be opposite in character. 1971 T. Roberts Handbk. Psychiatric Nurses ii. 62 Mania. There are four main types:—Hypomania... Acute mania, producing a wild frenzied aggressive attack of excitement and over activity. Chronic mania sometimes called Scott's mania. Hypermania: delirious or Bell's mania. 1989 J. A. B. Collier & J. M. Longmore Oxf. Handbk. Clin. Specialties (ed. 2) iv. 354 Mania implies an unaccountably elevated mood (euphoria), increased activity, and the presence of self-important ideas or grandiose delusions. 1992 N.Y. Mag. 3 Feb. 5/1 Our mood-disorder service provides evaluation and treatment of children and adolescents with depression, dysphoria, mania, and anxiety disorders. b. In extended use: abnormal (esp. excitable or aggressive) or hyperactive behaviour in an animal. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > mania > in lower animals mania1879 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 349 I iudged him [sc. a horse] to be vexed with a melancholy madnesse, called of the Physitians, Mania, or rather Melancholia.] 1879 W. L. Lindsay Mind in Lower Animals I. 97 They [sc. bees] are..liable to..temporary epidemic excitement, delirium, or mania. 1990 C. Paglia Sexual Personae ii. 66 The cat's ambivalent duality is dramatized in erratic mood-swings, abrupt leaps from torpor to mania. c. Inspired frenzy or madness. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > inspired madness mania1886 1886 C. A. Briggs Messianic Prophecy i. 12 The prophetic mania comes upon a man like Saul. 1975 M. Green I believe in Holy Spirit (1985) (BNC) 27 The profane word elohim..is now used to describe Saul's fits of mania and ecstasy. 1981 Times Lit. Suppl. 23 Jan. 79/5 Plato's four types of mania (telestic, or ritual; mantic or divinatory; poetic; and erotic). 2. a. A personal obsession, compulsion, or obsessive need; excessive excitement or enthusiasm; a collective enthusiasm, usually short-lived, a ‘craze’ or ‘rage’. Usually in singular with determiner, and frequently with for, of. Also (occasionally): the object of such an obsession or enthusiasm. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > zeal or enthusiasm > [noun] > extreme mania1689 Schwärmerei1845 rave1902 the mind > emotion > excitement > extravagant or rapturous excitement > [noun] woodnessc1000 excess1423 inebriation1526 madness1595 deliration1603 raptery1640 mania1689 intoxication1712 ebriety1751 delirium1757 nympholepsy1776 inebriety1786 orgiasm1840 raptus1845 ebriosity1854 slap-happiness1958 the mind > emotion > excitement > public excitement > [noun] motiona1387 humour1579 mania1689 scene1764 sensation1765 agitation1769 the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > [noun] > temporary desire frenzy1632 mania1689 furor1704 influenza1773 rage1780 furore1790 monomania1834 bug1887 craze1887 enthusiasm1895 the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > vehement or passionate desire > [noun] heartburna1325 concupiscencec1340 firelihead1340 ardourc1386 zealc1451 ardency1549 fervency1554 cupiscence1647 lust1679 mania1689 nympholepsy1776 nympholepsia1885 1689 J. Evelyn Let. 12 Aug. in Diary & Corr. (1852) III. 300 So vain a thing it is to set one's heart upon anything of this nature with that passion and mania, that unsatiable earl..did, to the detriment of his estate and family. 1807 C. W. Janson Stranger in Amer. 385 The mania of land speculation. 1815 W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 243 Catalogues, with a few annotations on the mania of portrait collectors. 1823 I. D'Israeli Curiosities of Lit. 2nd Ser. III. 49 At the restoration of letters,..there prevailed a mania for burying spurious antiquities. 1824 T. F. Dibdin Libr. Compan. 4 Manias which sometimes..bring disgrace upon the good old cause of bibliophilism. 1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. III. 199 I was told at Washington..that ‘the people of New England do good by mania’. 1878 W. S. Jevons Polit. Econ. 122 A prudent man would never invest in any new thing during a mania or bubble. 1883 J. Gilmour Among Mongols xiii. 141 The mania which possesses the Mongols for making pilgrimages. 1930 N. Coward Private Lives ii. 46 He had a positive mania for looking after me, and protecting me. 1968 D. Lessing Going Home (ed. 2) iv Cape Town meant the sea, for living land-locked in the highveld I used to hunger for the sea so that it became a mania. 1988 B. Chatwin Utz 20 What..is this mania of Kaspar's for porcelain? b. An obsessive enthusiasm for a particular thing, indicated by a distinguishing word, as railway, sex, tulip mania (see the first element). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > liking or favourable regard > [noun] > enthusiasm (for something) > extravagant enthusiasm or crush mania1776 Schwärmerei1845 schwarm1926 1776 Ann. Reg. 1775 190/1 My whole house had..been infected with the lottery mania,—(if I may be allowed the expression). 1777 in N. E. Hist. & Gen. Reg. (1872) 26 259 The rage for building in England..is somewhat similar to the tulip mania in Holland. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 600 During the rage of the paper currency mania. 1830 E. Bulwer-Lytton in Sel. Corr. M. Napier (1877) 83 What is the meaning of this Bible mania among the poetlings? 1896 Godey's Mag. Apr. 448/1 The heart mania has extended to the watch, a favorite design showing two linked hearts set with pearls. 1903 Daily Chron. 13 Oct. 5/1 In the last decade of that century a canal mania raged, in many ways resembling the railway mania of some sixty years ago. 1926 C. Connolly Let. 23 Aug. in Romantic Friendship (1975) 163 I have secrecy mania about my travels. 1975 M. Bradbury Hist. Man iii. 47 He had the reputation of suffering from building mania, or, as it was put, an Edifice Complex. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > see alsoalso refers to : -maniacomb. form < n.a1398 see also |
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