mania
noun /ˈmeɪniə/
/ˈmeɪniə/
- [countable, usually singular, uncountable] mania (for something/for doing something) an extremely strong desire or enthusiasm for something, often shared by a lot of people at the same time synonym craze
- He had a mania for fast cars.
- Football mania is sweeping the country.
- The violence of the crowd can only be explained as a sign of some collective mania.
- This is another example of Hollywood’s new mania for ghost movies.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- dotcom
- financial
- merger
- …
- have
- mania for
- [uncountable] (psychology) a mental illness in which somebody has an obsession about something that makes them extremely anxious, violent or confused
- She was diagnosed as suffering from persecution mania.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- acute
- religious
- a state of mania
Word Originlate Middle English: via late Latin from Greek, literally ‘madness’, from mainesthai ‘be mad’.