| 单词 | mania |
| 释义 | mania (once / 964 pages) n Mania is an extreme interest, desire, or craze. If you dye your dog's fur to match the colors of your favorite football team, you might be suffering from sportsmania. Mania has for centuries been associated with “madness” or “mental derangement.” It's still used in the mental health fields to mean the excitable, overactive phase of bipolar disorder or, as a suffix, to describe a compulsion, such as kleptomania (to steal) or pyromania (to set fires). More generally, it might be used as a suffix to describe enthusiasm, as in Beatlemania (The Beatles) or Pottermania (Harry Potter). WORD FAMILYmania: maniac, manias+/maniac: maniacal, maniacs/maniacal: maniacally/manic: mania, manically, maniclike USAGE EXAMPLESAs it happens, mania was Lowell’s most enduring diagnosis in his many years as a psychiatric patient. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) I met Mr. Diaz at the supreme manifestation of the state’s truck mania: the Texas Truck Rodeo. New York Times(Dec 31, 2016) She was all there, all the time: exuberant in describing her mania, savage and tender when recalling her despair. New York Times(Dec 28, 2016) 1n an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action Syn|Hypo|Hyper cacoethes, passion agromania an intense desire to be alone or out in the open alcoholism, dipsomania, potomaniaan intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess egomaniaan intense and irresistible love for yourself and concern for your own needs kleptomaniaan irresistible impulse to steal in the absence of any economic motive logomania, logorrheapathologically excessive (and often incoherent) talking monomania, possessiona mania restricted to one thing or idea necromania, necrophilia, necrophilisman irresistible sexual attraction to dead bodies phaneromaniaan irresistible desire to pick at superficial body parts (as in obsessive nail-biting) pyromaniaan uncontrollable desire to set fire to things trichotillomaniaan irresistible urge to pull out your own hair irrational motive a motivation that is inconsistent with reason or logic 2n a mood disorder; an affective disorder in which the victim tends to respond excessively and sometimes violently Syn|Hypo|Hyper manic disorder craze, delirium, frenzy, fury, hysteria state of violent mental agitation nympholepsya frenzy of emotion; as for something unattainable epidemic hysertia, mass hysteriaa condition in which a large group of people exhibit the same state of violent mental agitation affective disorder, emotional disorder, emotional disturbance, major affective disorder any mental disorder not caused by detectable organic abnormalities of the brain and in which a major disturbance of emotions is predominant |
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