List of manias
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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