mania
English
/ˈmeɪ.ni.ə/
noun
Definitions
- Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity.
- Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; fanaticism.
- (psychiatry) The state of abnormally elevated or irritable mood, arousal, and/or energy levels.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin mania derived from Ancient Greek μανία (madness).
Origin
Ancient Greek
μανία
Gloss
madness
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Illyromania English
- antimanic English
- hypermania English
- hypomanic English
- mania-like English
- maniaphobe English
- maniaphobia English
- manic English
- manically English
- manicky English
- melomania English
- monomania English
- nonmanic English
- pseudomanic English
- mania Finnish
- mania Latin
- mania Italian
- -manie Dutch, Flemish
- manie French
- -manía Spanish, Castilian
- manía Spanish, Castilian
- μαίνομαι Ancient Greek
- μανία Ancient Greek
- *men- Proto-Indo-European
- *mey- Proto-Indo-European
- mani Norwegian Bokmål
- mania Portuguese
- マニア Japanese
- mani Norwegian Nynorsk
- máine Irish
- manio Esperanto
- mania Catalan, Valencian
- mânie Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- μανία Greek (modern)
- μανιακός Greek (modern)
- mëri Albanian
- მანია Georgian