mania
noun
[ ˈmeɪnɪə ]
• mental illness marked by periods of great excitement or euphoria, delusions, and overactivity.
• "many people suffering from mania do not think anything is wrong"
Similar:
madness,
derangement,
dementia,
insanity,
lunacy,
dementedness,
psychosis,
schizophrenia,
mental illness,
delirium,
frenzy,
hysteria,
raving,
violence,
wildness,
Origin:
late Middle English: via late Latin from Greek, literally ‘madness’, from mainesthai ‘be mad’.
-mania
combining form
• denoting a specified type of mental abnormality or obsession.
• "kleptomania"
