mania
pronunciation
How to pronounce mania in British English:
UK [ˈmeɪniə]
How to pronounce mania in American English:
US [ˈmeɪniə]
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- Noun:
- an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action
- a mood disorder; an affective disorder in which the victim tends to respond excessively and sometimes violently
Word Origin
- mania
- mania: [14] Greek maníā meant ‘madness’. It goes back ultimately to Indo-European *mn-, *men- ‘think’, the same source as produced English mind. It reached English via late Latin mania. Of its derivatives, maniac [17] comes from late Greek maniakós, but manic [20] is an English formation. Closely related to maníā was the Greek verb maínesthai ‘be mad’; from it was derived mainás, the name for a fanatical female follower of Dionysus, which English has adopted via Latin as maenad [16].=> maenad, manic, mind
- mania (n.)
- late 14c., "mental derangement characterized by excitement and delusion," from Late Latin mania "insanity, madness," from Greek mania "madness, frenzy; enthusiasm, inspired frenzy; mad passion, fury," related to mainesthai "to rage, go mad," mantis "seer," menos "passion, spirit," all from PIE *men- (1) "to think, to have one's mind aroused, rage, be furious" (see mind (n.)). Sense of "fad, craze" is 1680s, from French manie in this sense. Sometimes nativized in Middle English as manye. Used since 1500s (in imitation of Greek) as the second element in compounds expressing particular types of madness (such as nymphomania, 1775; kleptomania, 1830; megalomania, 1890).
Synonym
Example
- 1. It may be chalked up to cloud mania .
- 2. And investor demand has now reached mania levels .
- 3. Valproate was fda-approved in 1995 for treatment of mania .
- 4. Apple mania has even inspired grass-roots inventors .
- 5. Mania creeps up on me like that .