Maníā is a word that expresses a morbid compulsion or mental disorder. It has entered the English and is affixed to many different words to denote enthusiasm or obsession with that subject.
Below is a list of important manias that you need know for your next exams.
A
Aboulomania –
➤ Meaning: Someone who is incapable of being decisive.
➤ Root: Greek a- means without, boule– means will or decision.
Andromania –
➤ Meaning: Extreme sexual desire in females towards males.
➤ Root: From Greek andro– meaning man, male or masculine.
➤ Synonyms: – hypersexuality, nymphomania, cytheromania or hysteromania.
Anglomania –
➤ Meaning: Obsession with England and the English (syn. anglophile)
➤ Root: Froim the Latin word angli or angle which is the root of the words England and English.
➤ Related word:
Anglophobia – fear or hatred for England or the English.
Arithmomania, arithomania –
➤ Meaning: Extreme obsession with the numbers and counting.
➤ Root: From Greek arithmós– meaning number.
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B
Bibliomania –
➤ Meaning: Uncontrollable desire for reading books.
➤ Root: From Greek biblion– meaning books.
C
Choreomania, choromania –
➤ Meaning: Extreme obsession with dancing
➤ Root: From Greek choros meaning dance.
D
Demonomania –
➤ Meaning: Obsession with one’s own demonic possession (delusional conviction)
Dermatillomania –
➤ Meaning: Obsession with picking at the skin.
➤ Root: The word is a combination of Greek derma (skin), tillo (to pull out), and mania (morbid compulsion / madness)
Dipsomania –
➤ Meaning: Obsession to alcohol.
➤ Root: From Greek dipsa meaning thirst.
Dromomania –
➤ Meaning: Extreme desire to travel.
➤ Root: From Greek dromos meaning running.
E
Egomania –
➤ Meaning: An intense and irresistible love for oneself and concern for one’s own needs.
➤ Root: From Latin ego meaning I,
Ergomania, ergasiomania –
➤ Meaning: Extreme obsession with work or exercise.
➤ Root: From Greek ergasio meaning work.
Erotomania –
➤ Meaning: Irresistible sexual desire from strangers (delusional conviction)
➤ Root: From Greek erotikos > eros means related to love or sexual passion or desire.
Etheromania –
➤ Meaning: Obsession to ether.
➤ Root: From Latin æther to Greek aithēr meaning the pure upper air or the sky.
Eleutheromania –
➤ Meaning: An intense and irresistible desire for freedom.
➤ Root: From Greek eleuthería meaning freedom.
G
Graphomania –
➤ Meaning: Obsessive impulse to write.
➤ Root: From Greek gráphein– meaning to write. Also known as scribomania (scriben means to write.)
H
Hypermania –
➤ Meaning: A severe mania.
➤ Root: From Greek hyper meaning over, excess etc.
Hypomania –
➤ Meaning: A mild mania.
➤ Root: From Greek hypo meaning less, under.
I
Intermania –
➤ Meaning: An obsession with destroying things.
➤ Root: From Latin interitus meaning destruction.
K
Kleptomania, klopemania –
➤ Meaning: An uncontrollable and irresistible desire to steal.
➤ Root: From Greek kleptes meaning a thief / a cheater.
L
Logomania –
➤ Meaning: Extreme talkativeness or wordiness i.e. loquacity.
➤ Root: From Greek logos meaning words.
Ludomania –
➤ Meaning: An obsession with gambling.
➤ Root: From Latin lūdō meaning I play
M
Megalomania –
➤ Meaning: Extreme desire to possess wealth and power.
➤ Root: From Greek megas meaning great or large.
Metromania –
➤ Meaning: An obsession with writing verse.
➤ Root: Greek metron means to measure. From metron the English word metre was derived. And in poetry, metre is the basic rhythmic structure of a line in a verse.
Micromania –
➤ Meaning: An extreme tendency of self-deprecation.
Or, A delusion that a body part has become small.
Monomania –
➤ Meaning: An obsession with a single idea, object etc.
➤ Root: From Greek monos meaning one.
Mythomania –
➤ Meaning: Obsession with lying.
➤ Root: Greek mythos meaning false beliefs or ideas.
N
Necromania –
➤ Meaning: Being fascinated or being sexual with dead bodies
Also known as necrophilia.
➤ Root: From Greek nekros meaning corpse or dead.
Nymphomania –
➤ Meaning: An abnormally intense sexual desire in women.
It is now an obsolete term for female hypersexuality.
➤ Root: From Greek nymphe meaning bride or newly married wife.
O
Oniomania –
➤ Meaning: Extreme desire to shop.
➤ Root: From Greek onios meaning to sale.
Onychotillomania –
➤ Meaning: To feel like picking at the fingernails always.
➤ Root: The word is formed with Greek onus (nail), plus tillo (to pluck) plus mania (morbid compulsion)
P
Plutomania –
➤ Meaning: Obsession with money or wealth.
➤ Root: From Greek ploutos meaning wealth.
➤ Related word:
Plutocracy – a government run by wealthy people.
Pyromania –
➤ Meaning: An abnormal love for fire or starting fires
➤ Root: From Greek pyr meaing fire.
➤ Related words –
i. Pyrophobia: fear of fire.
ii. Pyre: Wood heaped to burn a dead body as a funeral rite.
R
Rhinotillexomania –
➤ Meaning: To feel like picking one’s own nose always.
➤ Root: From Greek rhino meaning nose and tillexis means to pluck, tear, pull or pick at.
S
Satyromania –
➤ Meaning: Extreme, often uncontrollable sexual urge in and behavior by a men.
➤ Root: The word comes from the Greek word Satyr. A satyr is a woodland deity, partly man and partly horse; known as the lovers of wine, dancing, music, women.
For their riotous merriment and lechery, the word satyromania means uncontrollable sexual urge in men.
T
Theomania –
➤ Meaning: An obsession with one’s own divinity or divine mission.
➤ Root: From the ancient Greek word theon meaning gods or goddesses.
Toxicomania –
➤ Meaning: An insane desire for poisonous or intoxicating substances.
➤ Root: From the ancient Greek word toxikon meaning poison for use on arrows.
Trichotillomania –
➤ Meaning: An irresistible urge to pull out one’s own hair.
➤ Root: From Greek thrix > trikhos means hair and tillo/tillein meaning to pluck, tear, pull or pick at.
Typomania –
➤ Meaning: An obsession with typology or being published.
➤ Root: From Greek typos meaning impression.
V
Verbomania –
➤ Meaning: Craze for words.
➤ Root: From Latin verbum meaning words.
X
Xenomania –
➤ Meaning: Inordinate attachment to foreign things.
➤ From Greek xenos meaning strangers or foreigners.
➤ Related word –
Xenophobia. It means fear of strangers or foreigners.
Z
Zoomania –
➤ Meaning: Extreme obsession with animals.
➤ Root: From Greek zoion meaning animal or beast.
➤ Related words –
i. Zoophobia: meaning fear of animals.
ii. Zodiac: A circular diagram representing 12 constellations and showing their signs which are some animals.
Below is a picture of the zodiac signs.
Zodiac
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