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/mˈeɪniə/ Listen

noun

Mania n.

Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity. Cf. Delirium.

Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; as, the tulip mania.

Mania a potu, madness from drinking; delirium tremens.

Synonyms: Insanity; derangement; madness; lunacy; alienation; aberration; delirium; frenzy. See Insanity.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Mania" Quotes from Famous Books

... content themselves with severely punishing adultery in woman, even by death, but even simple conversations with a strange man. Jealousy transforms marriage into a hell. It is often exalted in man to the point of a mania for persecution, to which it is analogous. It is also a very common symptom of alcoholism. Then the life of the unfortunate woman who is the object of it becomes a continual martyrdom. Perpetual suspicion accompanied by insults, threats and violent words, and even homicide may ...

— The Sexual Question - A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study • August Forel

... Laval. The reunion, however, was not productive of happiness, owing to the fever of jealousy in which her elderly husband lived because of the love affair with the King. This jealousy eventually flared into mania when he heard that she had actually visited her former lover in prison after he had been captured at Pavia. Instantly he "shut his young wife up in a darkened and padded cell, and finally had her cut into pieces by two surgeons," so the story goes. Terrified at what he had done ...

— Legends & Romances of Brittany • Lewis Spence

... example, would appear to us absolutely exaggerated, if the figures in these pictures did not wear pigtails and wigs. Only in this unique age of the Rococo does it seem to us possible that such freaks could have walked the earth in the flesh. And we are not wrong in so thinking; for the mania to be an original type, a virtuoso of personality, in that day turned innumerable persons into genuine caricatures. A certain Count von Hoditz, in the middle of the eighteenth century, founded a so-called "Maria Theresa sheep-farm" (in honor of the Empress) on his estate Roswalde, ...

— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. VIII • Various

... I love you so, Virginia," he hastened to urge in extenuation of his suggested disloyalty. "I cannot see you sacrificed to his horrible mania. You do not realize the imminence of your peril. Tomorrow Number Thirteen was to have come to live beneath the same roof with you. You recall Number One whom the stranger killed as the thing was bearing you away ...

— The Monster Men • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... astonishing what a mania for card-playing existed in Corsica at that time—and it is probably the same now. The clubs and cafes were watched by the police, for the young men ruined themselves at a game called bouillotte. In the villages it was the same; the peasants were mad for a game at cards, and when ...

— The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 26, February 1893 - An Illustrated Monthly • Various

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