mania

Borrowed from Latin mania, from Ancient Greek μανία (manía, “madness”).

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmeɪ.ni.ə/
• Hyphenation: ma‧ni‧a
• Rhymes: -eɪniə

mania (countable and uncountable, plural manias)

1. Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity.
2. Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; fanaticism.
   • 2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:

     Dotcom mania was slow in coming to higher education, but now it has the venerable industry firmly in its grip. Since the launch early last year of Udacity and Coursera, two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations.

3. (psychiatry) The state of abnormally elevated or irritable mood, arousal, and/or energy levels.
   • 2004 March, Berrios, G. E., “Of Mania: introduction (Classic text no. 57)”, in History of Psychiatry, number 15, DOI:10.1177/0957154X04041829, PMID 15104084, pages 105–124:

• dipsomania
• manic
• maniac
• megalomania

• mania at OneLook Dictionary Search

• Amina, Maina, amain, amnia, anima

Borrowed from Latin mania or Ancient Greek μανία (manía, “madness”).

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /məˈni.ə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /maˈni.a/

mania f (plural manies)

1. mania

• maníac
• manicomi

• “mania” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

mania

1. mania

mania

1. Partitive singular form of mani.

• Naima, aamin, maina

• IPA^(key): /ma.nja/

mania

1. first-person singular past historic of manier

• anima

From Latin mania, from Ancient Greek μανία (manía, “madness”).

mania f (plural manie)

1. mania
2. habit (if strange)
3. quirk
4. bug
5. one-track mind

   Synonyms: fissazione, assillo, smania, pallino fisso, chiodo fisso

• maniacale
• maniaco
• manicomio

• anima

From Ancient Greek μανία (manía).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈma.ni.a/

mania f (genitive maniae); first declension

1. craze, mania, madness

First declension.

• Italian: mania
• Old Portuguese: manna
• Romanian: mânie
• → Albanian: mëri, mëni (probably)
• → Catalan: mania
• → Danish: mani
• → Dutch: manie
• → English: mania
• → Finnish: mania
• → French: manie
• → German: Manie
• → Irish: máine
• → Norwegian: mani
• → Portuguese: mania
• → Spanish: manía
• → Swedish: mani

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmaː.ni.a/

mānia

1. inflection of mānis:
   1. nominative neuter plural
   2. accusative neuter plural
   3. vocative neuter plural

• mania in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mania in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• mania in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• mania in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Borrowed from Latin mania or Ancient Greek μανία (manía, “madness”).

mania f (plural manias)

1. mania (excessive or unreasonable desire)
2. vice (bad habit)

• (vice): vício

• IPA^(key): /maˈni.a/

mania

1. (of the sea or weather) calm
2. (figuratively) serene, calm, tranquil, peaceful (state of mind)
3. dull

• Yves Lemaître, Lexique du tahitien contemporain (Current Tahitian lexicon), 1995.
• “mania” in Dictionnaire en ligne Tahitien/Français (Online Tahitian–French Dictionary), by the Tahitian Academy.