nymphomania

en-noun

nymphomania (countable and uncountable, plural nymphomanias)

Borrowed from New Latin, from Latin nympha + -mania. By surface analysis, nympho- + mania.

Coordinate term: satyriasis

Excess of sexual behaviour or desire in women.

nimfomania

excess of sexual behaviour or desire in women


mania

mania (countable and uncountable, plural manias)

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

2004 March, G. E. Berrios, “Of Mania: introduction (Classic text no. 57)”, in History of Psychiatry, number 15, →DOI, →PMID, pages 105–124:

(psychiatry) The state of abnormally elevated or irritable mood, arousal, and/or energy levels.


trichotillomania

From Ancient Greek θρίξ (thríx, “hair”) (genitive: τριχός (trikhós)) + τίλλω (tíllō, “I pull out, pluck”) + μανία (manía, “madness”).

A medical disorder where someone compulsively pulls their own hair out.

trichomania

mania for hair or hairiness; not to be confused

trichophilia

paraphilic attraction to hair or hairiness; hair-fetishism


sophomania

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A delusion of having superior intelligence.


megalomania

megalomania (countable and uncountable, plural megalomanias)

Borrowed from French mégalomanie; equivalent to megalo- + -mania.

(obsolete) Narcissistic personality disorder.


monomania

monomania (plural monomanias or monomaniæ)

/ˌmɒnəʊˈmeɪnɪə/

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Either:
* Formed in English as mono- + mania;
* From the French monomanie; or,
* From the Modern Latin monomania.

“There are no limits to the possibilities of monomania,” I answered. “There is the condition which the modern French psychologists have called the ‘idée fixe,’ which may be trifling in character, and accompanied by complete sanity in every other way. A man who had read deeply about Napoleon, or who had possibly received some hereditary family injury through the great war, might conceivably form such an ‘idée fixe’ and under its influence be capable of any fantastic outrage.”

1904 April 30, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Six Napoleons”, in The Return of Sherlock Holmes, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., published February 1905, →OCLC, page 212:

(pathology, dated) A pathological obsession with one person, thing or idea.


graphomania

graphomania (usually uncountable, plural graphomanias)

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/ˌɡɹæfəˈmeɪni.ə/

A devoted explorer of decalcomania, fumage, frottage, collage and other methods of pictorial automatism, Colquhoun invented several magic-inspired techniques of her own, including graphomania, stillomania, and parsemage.

1998, Penelope Rosemont, editor, Surrealist Women: An International Anthology, University of Texas Press, page 113:

Entoptic graphomania
w:Entoptic graphomania

(art) Used as part of the name of various surrealist techniques, e.g., a method in which dots are made at the sites of impurities in a blank sheet of paper, and lines are then made between the dots; see "Entoptic graphomania".


dipsomania

dipsomania (countable and uncountable, plural dipsomanias)

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From dipso- (“thirst; drinking”) + -mania.

Specifically periodic alcoholism, characterized by bouts of heavy drinking rather than continuous indulgence in alcohol.


Gallomania

An obsession with, or excessive admiration of, all things French.


timbromania

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From timbre (“postage stamp”) + -o- + -mania, borrowed from French timbromanie.


anthomania

From Ancient Greek ἄνθος (ánthos, “flower”) + -mania.


oniomania

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From Ancient Greek ὤνιος (ṓnios, “for sale”) + -mania, after German Oniomanie.

(psychology) An abnormal impulse to buy things, or a condition characterised by such impulses.


theomania

theomania (usually uncountable, plural theomanias)

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tulipomania

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Certainly one of the best illustrations of the fantastic in the motley variety of items that avarice might seize for its own is the tulipomania that swept over the Netherlands in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

1989, Stanford M. Lyman, The Seven Deadly Sins: Society and Evil, page 250:

[I]n 1646, during the phenomenon known as "Tulipomania", a tulip like the red and white 'Admirael van der Eijck', or the purple-splashed 'Generalen van Gouda' would sell for more than 1,000 Dutch florins, at a time when the average annual income of a skilled worker was about 300 florins.

2014 September 26, Charles Quest-Ritson, “The Dutch garden where tulip bulbs live forever: Hortus Bulborum, a volunteer-run Dutch garden, is dedicated to conserving historic varieties before they vanish for good [print version: Inspired by a living bulb archive, 27 September 2014, p. G5]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Gardening):

Enthusiasm for tulips, as in a period in the Dutch Golden Age during which contract prices for bulbs of the recently introduced tulip reached extraordinarily high levels and then suddenly collapsed.


Francomania

From Franco- (“of the French”) + -mania (“obsession”).

confix

An obsession with the French culture, language, or people.


doromania

Ancient Greek δῶρον (dôron, “gift”) + -mania.

An unusual urge or preoccupation with giving gifts.


drapetomania

Coined in 1851 by Samuel A. Cartwright as a name for a supposed mental illness that caused black slaves to flee captivity. Ancient Greek δραπέτης (drapétēs, “runaway slave”) + μανία (manía, “madness”).

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One of these is a supposed form of mental disease, termed by him "Drapetomania, which, like a malady that cats are liable to, manifests itself by an irrestrainable propensity to run away."

I thought I was a hypochondriac because my friends said that I was showing unnecessary concern about my health. Thanks to Dr. Cartwright I now know that I am a diseased man. I suffer from the acute stages of a chronic disease: drapetomania. I have the obsessive desire to run toward freedom. You have the right to know that a diseased man is near you because, and I say this carefully, drapetomania is contagious, and I am glad about it. As a drapetomaniac, I belong at a Freedom Fund Banquet.

1989, David Pilgrim, Race relations "above the veil": speeches, essays, and other writings:

Mark declined and moved into the dark cavern. Strobes and smoke created curtains of imminent light. "You viced up Marky?" said Nick. Faking something close to drapetomania, ...

I still flee from my home to chase dreams. Sometimes I manage to elude capture and sometimes I do not. Is that Drapetomania? Is that Squircular? What do you call it? No results found for squircle. In 2005, for the first time, I wrote but never publicized my personal experience with Drapetomania (or Squircular, if you prefer) in an essalogue with a seven syllable title: An Actor's Tale In the Crazy House with Christ!

2010, Summer Hill Seven (Raymond Abdul-Alim Ákbar), Squircular!: An Actor's Tale, →ISBN, page 87:

(dated) an overwhelming urge to run away (from home, a bad situation, responsibility, etc.)


gamomania

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/ɡæmə(ʊ)ˈmeɪnɪə/

An obsessive desire for making bizarre marriage proposals.


verbomania

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misomania

From the prefix miso- (hatred), and the Latin word mania.

(very rare, psychology) A mania of hatred for everything.


hypomania

en-noun

hypomania (countable and uncountable, plural hypomanias)

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From hypo- + -mania, after German Hypomanie.

She was lovely beyond all others, this Jewish dervish, with her sense of space and history, her echo-box of racial memories, her gallant hypomania.

1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 197:

(medicine) A mild form of mania, especially the phase of several mood disorders characterized by euphoria or hyperactivity.


macromania

(medicine) A mania characterized by the delusion that objects are larger than they really are; or that one's own body or body parts are much larger than they are.


trichomania

From Ancient Greek
θρίξ (thríx, “hair”) (stem trikh-) and μανία (manía, “madness”). By surface analysis, tricho- + -mania.

A mania for, or passionate interest in, long hair.

trichotillomania

hair-removing compulsion; not to be confused


hippomania

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clinomania

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An excessive desire to remain in bed; morbid sleepiness.


habromania

(dated) A form of delusional insanity in which the imaginings assume a cheerful or joyous character.


hagiomania

One regular symptom of hagiomania (if the word may be allowed) is the desire of martyrdom.


satyromania

Ancient Greek σάτυρος (sáturos) + -mania

Coordinate term: nymphomania

Reggie's brutal lust borders on satyromania

1972, A. V. Krishna Rao, The Indo-Anglian Novel and the Changing Tradition, Mysore: Rao and Raghavan, →OCLC, page 34:


tomomania

From Ancient Greek τέμνω (témnō, “I cut”) + -mania.

And we must not leave out tomomania, that delightful complex, usually acquired by ladies who just love to be operated on by surgeons.

Dentists who eschew all the onerous tasks of dentistry and will do nothing except extract teeth and make dentures sometimes are guilty of tomomania.

1951, The Journal of the Michigan State Dental Association:

A morbid addiction to performing or undergoing surgery.


Graecomania

A passion for Greece and its people and culture.


polymania

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(medicine, archaic) total insanity, as contrasted with monomania


Russomania

Great enthusiasm for Russia, its people, language or culture.


autographomania

An enthusiasm for collecting the autographs of famous people.