List of manias

List of manias
The English suffix -mania denotes an obsession with something; a mania. The suffix is used in some medical terms denoting mental disorders. It has also entered standard English and is affixed to many different words to denote enthusiasm or obsession with that subject. Cambridge Dictionary has defined mania as “a very strong interest in something that fills a person's mind or uses up all their time” Britannica Dictionary defined mania as a mental illness in which a person becomes very emotional or excited.
Psychological conditions
A
Aboulomania – indecisiveness (aboulo- (Greek) meaning irresolution or indecision)
Andromania – human sexual behaviour and desire towards males in females (andro- (Greek) meaning man, men, male or masculine) Can be replaced by hypersexuality, nymphomania, cytheromania or hysteromania.
Anglomania – England and a passion or obsession with the English (i.e. anglophile) See also anglophobia.
Arithmomania, arithmomania – numbers and counting (arithmo- (Greek) meaning number)
Ablutomania - Mania for washing oneself
Agromania - Intense desire to be in open spaces
Andromania - Nymphomania
Anthomania - Obsession with flowers
Aphrodisiomania - Abnormal sexual interest
B
Bibliomania – books and reading (biblio- (Greek) meaning books)
C
Choreomania, choromania – dancing (choreo- (Greek) meaning dance)
D
Demonomania – one's own demonic possession (delusional conviction)
Decalcomania – decal (decorative technique of transferring specially prepared paper prints to ceramic surfaces i.e. glass, porcelain, etc.)
Dermatillomania – picking at the skin
Dipsomania – alcohol (dipso- (Greek) meaning thirst)
Drapetomania – running away from home (pseudoscience)
Dromomania – traveling
E
Egomania – oneself and self-worship (ego- (Latin) meaning I, first person and singular pronoun)
Ergomania, ergasiomania – work (ergasio- or ergo- (Greek) meaning work)
Erotomania – sexual desire or sexual attraction from strangers (delusional conviction) (eroto- (Greek) meaning sexual passion or desire)
Etheromania – ether (ethero- (Greek > Latin) meaning upper air or sky
Eleutheromania – an intense and irresistible desire for freedom
G
Glazomania - making lists
Graphomania – writing (grapho- (Greek) meaning to write)
H
Hypermania – severe mania—mental state with high intensity disorientation and often violent behavior, symptomatic of bipolar disorder (hyper- (Greek) meaning abnormal excess)
Hypomania – mild mania—mental state with persistent and pervasive elevated or irritable mood, symptomatic of bipolar disorder (hypo- (Greek) meaning deficient)
K
Kleptomania, klopemania – stealing
Klazomania – screaming
L
Logomania – being wordy and talkative i.e. loquacity
Lisztomania – an obsession with Franz Liszt
Ludomania – gambling
M
Mania – severely elevated mood
megalomania – wealth and power
Metromania – writing verse
Micromania – self-deprecation
Monomania – a single object, type of object, or concept
Mythomania – lying
N
Necromania – being sexual with dead bodies (necrophilia)
Nymphomania – an obsolete term for female hypersexuality
O
Oniomania – desire to shop
Onychotillomania – picking at the fingernails
P
Plutomania – money or wealth (ploutos- (Greek) meaning wealth)
Pteridomania – ferns
Pyromania – fire or starting fires
Pseudomania - Irrational predilection for lying
R
Rhinotillexomania – nose picking (rhino- (Greek) meaning nose and tillexis- meaning to pluck, tear, pull or pick at)
S
Satyromania – excessive, often uncontrollable sexual desire in and behavior by a man (satyr- (Greek > Latin) meaning a woodland deity, part man and part goat; riotous merriment and lechery)
T
Theomania – one's own divinity or one's divine mission
Toxicomania – poisons
Trichotillomania – hair removal
Typomania – printing one's works
Other
Beatlemania – the Beatles (an obsession with the Beatles)
Tulipomania – a metaphor for an economic bubble
Trudeaumania – the Canadian politician Pierre Trudeau
Pottermania – Harry Potter
See also
List of phobias
References
Glossaries of medicine
Lists of words
Mania
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