Mania | Definition |
Ablutomania | Mania for washing oneself |
Aboulomania | Pathological indecisiveness |
Agromania | Intense desire to be in open spaces |
Andromania | Nymphomania |
Anglomania | Craze or obsession with England and the English |
Anthomania | Obsession with flowers |
Aphrodisiomania | Abnormal sexual interest |
Arithmomania | Obsessive preoccupation with numbers |
Balletomania | Abnormal fondness for ballet |
Bibliomania | Craze for books or reading |
Bruxomania | Compulsion for grinding teeth |
Cacodemomania | Pathological belief that one is inhabited by an evil spirit |
Catapedamania | Obsession with jumping from high places |
Chinamania | Obsession with collecting china |
Choreomania | Dancing mania or frenzy |
Clinomania | Excessive desire to stay in bed |
Copromania | Obsession with feces |
Cytheromania | Nymphomania |
Dacnomania | Obsession with killing |
Demonomania | Pathological belief that one is possessed by demons |
Dinomania | Mania for dancing |
Dipsomania | Abnormal craving for alcohol |
Discomania | Obsession for disco music |
Doramania | Obsession with owning furs |
Doromania | Obsession with giving gifts |
Drapetomania | Intense desire to run away from home |
Dromomania | Compulsive longing for travel |
Mania | Definition |
Ecdemomania | Abnormal compulsion for wandering |
Egomania | Irrational self-centered attitude or self-worship |
Eleutheromania | Manic desire for freedom |
Empleomania | Mania for holding public office |
Enosimania | Pathological belief that one has sinned |
Entheomania | Abnormal belief that one is divinely inspired |
Epomania | Craze for writing epics |
Ergasiomania | Excessive desire to work; ergomania; workaholism |
Erotomania | Abnormally powerful sex drive |
Etheromania | Craving for ether |
Ethnomania | Obsessive devotion to one's own people |
Eulogomania | Obsessive craze for eulogies |
Flagellomania | Abnormal enthusiasm for flogging |
Florimania | Craze for flowers |
Francomania | Craze or obsession with France and the French |
Gallomania | Craze or obsession with France and the French |
Gamomania | Obsession with issuing odd marriage proposals |
Graecomania | Obsession with Greece and the Greeks; hellenomania |
Graphomania | Obsession with writing |
Gynaecomania | Abnormal sexual obsession with women |
Habromania | Insanity featuring cheerful delusions |
Hagiomania | Mania for sainthood |
Hexametromania | Mania for writing in hexameter |
Hieromania | Pathological religious visions or delusions |
Hippomania | Obsession with horses |
Hydromania | Irrational craving for water |
Hylomania | Excessive tendency towards materialism |
Hypermania | Severe mania |
Hypomania | Minor mania |
Hysteromania | Nymphomania |
Mania | Definition |
Iconomania | Obsession with icons or portraits |
Idolomania | Obsession or devotion to idols |
Infomania | Excessive devotion to accumulating facts |
Islomania | Craze or obsession for islands |
Italomania | Obsession with Italy or Italians |
Kleptomania | Irrational predilection for stealing |
Klopemania | Kleptomania |
Logomania | Pathological loquacity |
Lypemania | Extreme pathological mournfulness |
Macromania | Delusion that objects are larger than natural size |
Megalomania | Abnormal tendency towards grand or grandiose behaviour |
Melomania | Craze for music |
Methomania | Morbid craving for alcohol |
Metromania | Insatiable desire for writing verse |
Micromania | Pathological self-deprecation or belief that one is very small |
Monomania | Abnormal obsession with a single thought or idea |
Morphinomania | Habitual craving or desire for morphine |
Musomania | Obsession with music |
Mythomania | Lying or exaggerating to an abnormal extent |
Narcomania | Uncontrollable craving for narcotics |
Necromania | Sexual obsession with dead bodies; necrophilia |
Nosomania | Delusion of suffering from a disease |
Nostomania | Abnormal desire to go back to familiar places |
Nymphomania | Excessive or crazed sexual desire |
Mania | Definition |
Oenomania | Obsession or craze for wine |
Oligomania | Obsession with a few thoughts or ideas |
Oniomania | Mania for making purchases |
Onomamania | Mania for names |
Onomatomania | Irresistible desire to repeat certain words |
Onychotillomania | Compulsive picking at the fingernails |
Opiomania | Craving for opium |
Opsomania | Abnormal love for one kind of food |
Orchidomania | Abnormal obsession with orchids |
Parousiamania | Obsession with the second coming of Christ |
Pathomania | Moral insanity |
Peotillomania | Abnormal compulsion for pulling on the penis |
Phagomania | Excessive desire for food or eating |
Phaneromania | Habit of biting one's nails |
Pharmacomania | Abnormal obsession with trying drugs |
Phonomania | Pathological tendency to murder |
Photomania | Pathological desire for light |
Phyllomania | Excessive or abnormal production of leaves |
Phytomania | Obsession with collecting plants |
Planomania | Abnormal desire to wander and disobey social norms |
Plutomania | Mania for money |
Polemomania | Mania for war |
Politicomania | Mania for politics |
Polkamania | Craze for polka dancing |
Polymania | Mania affecting several different mental faculties |
Poriomania | Abnormal compulsion to wander |
Pornomania | Obsession with pornography |
Potichomania | Craze for imitating oriental porcelain |
Potomania | Abnormal desire to drink alcohol |
Pseudomania | Irrational predilection for lying |
Pteridomania | Passion for ferns |
Pyromania | Craze for starting fires |
Mania | Definition |
Rhinotillexomania | Compulsive nose picking |
Rinkomania | Obsession with skating |
Satyromania | Abnormally great male sexual desire; satyriasis |
Scribbleomania | Obsession with scribbling |
Sebastomania | Religious insanity |
Sitiomania | Morbid aversion to food |
Sophomania | Delusion that one is incredibly intelligent |
Squandermania | Irrational propensity for spending money wastefully |
Stampomania | Obsession with stamp-collecting |
Syphilomania | Pathological belief that one is afflicted with syphilis |
Technomania | Craze for technology |
Teutomania | Obsession with Teutonic or German things |
Thanatomania | Belief that one has been affected by death magic, and resulting illness |
Theatromania | Craze for going to plays |
Theomania | Belief that one is a god |
Timbromania | Craze for stamp collecting |
Tomomania | Irrational predilection for performing surgery |
Toxicomania | Morbid craving for poisons |
Trichotillomania | Neurosis where patient pulls out own hair |
Tulipomania | Obsession with tulips |
Typhomania | Delirious state resulting from typhus fever |
Typomania | Craze for printing one's lucubration |
Uranomania | Obsession with the idea of divinity |
Verbomania | Craze for words |
Xenomania | Inordinate attachment to foreign things |
Zoomania | Insane fondness for animals |