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Synonyms for mania

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Synonyms for mania

a subject or activity that inspires lively interest

an irrational preoccupation

serious mental illness or disorder impairing a person's capacity to function normally and safely

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Synonyms for mania

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You said just now that things might be done by religious mania. Have you ever heard of irreligious mania?
It looks like religious mania, and he will soon think that he himself is God.
The senseless hatred of the lieutenant grew at last into a form of mania. The captain's natural taciturnity he distorted into a studied attempt to insult him because of his past shortcomings.
Never to reef down was his mania, and in all the time I spent with him, blow high or low, the Reindeer was never reefed.
After this Amy subsided, till a mania for sketching from nature set her to haunting river, field, and wood, for picturesque studies, and sighing for ruins to copy.
Even ladies catch the climbing mania, and are unable to throw it off.
The history of stock, bond, currency, commodity and property markets is replete with a succession of periodic boom bust cycles, manias and bubbles and crashes, across the centuries.
Bitcoin has surged from $1000 in March to $11,000 and generated a global speculative mania. Bitcoin's mania evokes the Dutch tulip mania in Rembrandt's Amsterdam, the South Seas bubble in the eighteenth century that bankrupted Bourbon France and led to the 1789 revolution, the Roaring Twenties on Wall Street and dotcom mania in the late-1990s.
Louisville, KY, July 08, 2017 --(PR.com)-- On Saturday, June 17th, Annette Manias, President of Oasis Solutions, participated in Let's Dance Louisville at the Louisville Marriott Downtown.
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So Evangelos Manias, director of the Nanostructured Materials Lab at Pennsylvania State University, is working on the dispersion of nanometer-thin particles of natural clays to plastics to improve flame resistance.
One of the best descriptions of this phenomena was published in 1841, with Charles Mackay's "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds." Mackay chronicled such infamous manias as the tulip bulb obsession of the mid-1600s and the South Sea Real Estate "Bubble" of the early 18th century, when thousands of otherwise sane investors ruined themselves financially.
Refractory manias and alternatives to lithium treatment.
* 1 of 3 types of mania, including: acute and delusional manias, as initially proposed by Kraeplin
When does mania signal bipolar disorder, another medical illness, or the adverse effects of a prescribed antidepressant?