A flaw of the brain; a craze, unsoundness of mind.

Excessive or frenzied pursuit of wealth.

Passionate enthusiasm for horses or equestrian sports and activities.

A mania or craze for water; Pathology an excessive craving for water or liquids.

passionate enthusiasm for or interest in animals.

An insane or irrational fancy; a mania. Also in weakened sense: a capricious and usually temporary enthusiasm; the craze = (all) the rage (see rage…

pathological fondness for music.

= musicomania n. at musico-, comb._form affix 2b.

Extreme homesickness, formerly regarded as a type of insanity. Cf. nostalgia, n. 1.

obsession with marriage (see also quot. 1885).

A morbid and insatiable craving for alcohol, often of a paroxysmal character. Also applied to persistent drunkenness, and formerly to the delirium…

An enthusiasm or mania for mesmerism.

religious mania; also, demonomania.

An excessive craving for a particular food, esp. a delicacy.

Originally: †morbid craving for alcohol, dipsomania (obsolete). In later use: excessive consumption of water, polydipsia; (also) water…

An uncontrollable craving for opium.

Excessive desire for conflict; militant anger.

a mania or insane fancy for foreigners, or for something foreign.

A passion for wine. Formerly: spec. a mania or craving for alcohol, dipsomania; (also) the mania resulting from intoxication, delirium tremens.

The condition of loving a statue, image, or inanimate object; sexual attraction towards such an object. Also: love for an object of one's own making.

Sexual pleasure derived from urination.

A morbid desire to be enclosed within a confined space; also transferred.

(A term proposed for) a strong interest in water and in the urinary function (see quots. 1928 1933). Now usually = urolagnia, n.

Medicine. The desire to have leprosy, or the feigning of leprosy (usually for social reasons or as a manifestation of mental illness; see…

A strong desire to care for people with leprosy; attraction to or fascination with leprosy.

an undue fascination with death.