Mania
noun
An excessive excitement or enthusiasm, especially about something in particular.
Bitcoin mania has swept across the world in recent years.
Often appears as...
- bitcoin mania
- shopping mania
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Disapproving
noun
A mental illness marked by periods of great excitement, euphoria, delusions, and overactivity.
He was suffering from a manic episode, part of his bipolar mania.
Often appears as...
- bipolar mania
- mania episode
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Technical
noun
An exaggerated or intense enthusiasm or interest in something, often shared by many people.
There was a mania for fitness in the early 2000s.
Often appears as...
- fitness mania
- dance mania
noun
An obsession with a specific idea, activity or thing, often to the point of being unreasonable.
His mania for cleanliness was becoming a problem.
Often appears as...
- cleaning mania
- gaming mania
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Disapproving
noun
An excessive excitement or enthusiasm, especially about something in particular.
Bitcoin mania has swept across the world in recent years.
Often appears as...
- bitcoin mania
- shopping mania
Usage tips
Disapproving
noun
A mental illness marked by periods of great excitement, euphoria, delusions, and overactivity.
He was suffering from a manic episode, part of his bipolar mania.
Often appears as...
- bipolar mania
- mania episode
Usage tips
Technical
noun
An exaggerated or intense enthusiasm or interest in something, often shared by many people.
There was a mania for fitness in the early 2000s.
Often appears as...
- fitness mania
- dance mania
noun
An obsession with a specific idea, activity or thing, often to the point of being unreasonable.
His mania for cleanliness was becoming a problem.
Often appears as...
- cleaning mania
- gaming mania
Usage tips
Disapproving
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/2Current Trends
Use 'mania' to describe widespread enthusiasm in current trends or fads.
Everywhere you look, there's plant mania among gardeners.
Pro Tip 2/2Exaggerated Interest
'Mania' signifies an interest that is stronger and more obsessive than usual.
His puzzle mania keeps him occupied for hours.
Pro Tip 1/2Current Trends
Use 'mania' to describe widespread enthusiasm in current trends or fads.
Everywhere you look, there's plant mania among gardeners.
Pro Tip 2/2Exaggerated Interest
'Mania' signifies an interest that is stronger and more obsessive than usual.
His puzzle mania keeps him occupied for hours.
Pro Tip 1/2Current Trends
Use 'mania' to describe widespread enthusiasm in current trends or fads.
Everywhere you look, there's plant mania among gardeners.
Pro Tip 2/2Exaggerated Interest
'Mania' signifies an interest that is stronger and more obsessive than usual.
His puzzle mania keeps him occupied for hours.
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Cameron Herold: Let's...
All these traits, you can find in young kids, and you can help nurture them. Look for that kind of stuff. There's two traits I want you to also look out for that we don't get out of their system. Don't medicate kids for attention deficit disorder unless it is really, really freaking bad. The same with the whole things on mania and stress and depression,
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Let's raise kids to be...
young kids and you can help nurture them look for that kind of stuff there's two traits that I want you to also look out for that we don't kind of get out of their system don't medicate kids for attention deficit disorder unless it is really really freakin bad the same with the whole things on mania and stress and depression like unless it is so
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Paul Tudor Jones II: Why...
I was able to move into the upstairs world of money management, where I spent the next three decades as a global macro trader. And over that time, I've seen a lot of crazy things in the markets, and I've traded a lot of crazy manias. And unfortunately,
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Rachel Botsman: The case...
of all the dots that went on in my head. The first thing I began to how many big concepts were emerging -- from the wisdom of crowds to smart mobs -- around how ridiculously easy it is to form groups for a purpose. And linked to this crowd mania
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What causes economic...
Today, scholars work long and hard trying to predict what causes a bubble and how to avoid them. Tulip mania is an effective illustration of the underlying principles at work in a bubble and can help us understand more recent examples
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Bizarre Birth: Baby...
you're watching a reproductive blizzard one spiny lobster mom yes this lobster mania is all coming from one spiny lobster mom is giving birth and sending her children off into the world in this
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Lobster Babies PIPE...
you're watching a reproductive lizard one spiny lobster mom yes this Lobster mania is all coming from one spiny lobster mom is giving birth and sending her children off into the world in this
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The world's English...
the net okay religious mania there's rapture there's weeping there's visions manias can be good manias can be alarming or manias can be deadly the world has a new mania a mania for
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Jay Walker on the...
there's visions. Manias can be good. Manias can be alarming. Or manias can be deadly. The world has a new mania.
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“Darius Goes West” PIPE...
it was mania Darius's adventure began here at a
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Cameron Herold: Let's...
All these traits, you can find in young kids, and you can help nurture them. Look for that kind of stuff. There's two traits I want you to also look out for that we don't get out of their system. Don't medicate kids for attention deficit disorder unless it is really, really freaking bad. The same with the whole things on mania and stress and depression,
Video examples
Let's raise kids to be...
young kids and you can help nurture them look for that kind of stuff there's two traits that I want you to also look out for that we don't kind of get out of their system don't medicate kids for attention deficit disorder unless it is really really freakin bad the same with the whole things on mania and stress and depression like unless it is so
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Paul Tudor Jones II: Why...
I was able to move into the upstairs world of money management, where I spent the next three decades as a global macro trader. And over that time, I've seen a lot of crazy things in the markets, and I've traded a lot of crazy manias. And unfortunately,
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Rachel Botsman: The case...
of all the dots that went on in my head. The first thing I began to how many big concepts were emerging -- from the wisdom of crowds to smart mobs -- around how ridiculously easy it is to form groups for a purpose. And linked to this crowd mania
Video examples
What causes economic...
Today, scholars work long and hard trying to predict what causes a bubble and how to avoid them. Tulip mania is an effective illustration of the underlying principles at work in a bubble and can help us understand more recent examples
Video examples
Bizarre Birth: Baby...
you're watching a reproductive blizzard one spiny lobster mom yes this lobster mania is all coming from one spiny lobster mom is giving birth and sending her children off into the world in this
Video examples
Lobster Babies PIPE...
you're watching a reproductive lizard one spiny lobster mom yes this Lobster mania is all coming from one spiny lobster mom is giving birth and sending her children off into the world in this
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The world's English...
the net okay religious mania there's rapture there's weeping there's visions manias can be good manias can be alarming or manias can be deadly the world has a new mania a mania for
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Jay Walker on the...
there's visions. Manias can be good. Manias can be alarming. Or manias can be deadly. The world has a new mania.
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“Darius Goes West” PIPE...
it was mania Darius's adventure began here at a
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Chris Gethard
American Actor
My sadness compels me to hide it so that people won't judge me. Seeking help would have blown my cover. Meanwhile, my mania convinces me that it's making me fun so I'll want to dive further into it. Seeking help would've ruined that good time.
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Jenifer Lewis
American Actress
I had been a hurricane all my life. And that was, of course, because I was bipolar and did not know it. And I was - you know, the mania took control. When you're on stage and when you're performing, you're heightened, and it's an extreme.
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Honore de Balzac
French Novelist
Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
French Philosopher
It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.
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Ray Bradbury
American Writer
I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.
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Juliette Lewis
American Actress
I can tell you I have dealt with mania my whole life.
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Sylvester Stallone
American Actor
I have a fear of heights that borders on mania.
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Dave Pelzer
American Writer
There's a lot of Dave mania when I speak.
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James Gleick
American Author
We choose mania over boredom every time.
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Jeff Bridges
American Actor
Mania is a wonderful feeling.
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Chris Gethard
American Actor
My sadness compels me to hide it so that people won't judge me. Seeking help would have blown my cover. Meanwhile, my mania convinces me that it's making me fun so I'll want to dive further into it. Seeking help would've ruined that good time.
Quote examples
Jenifer Lewis
American Actress
I had been a hurricane all my life. And that was, of course, because I was bipolar and did not know it. And I was - you know, the mania took control. When you're on stage and when you're performing, you're heightened, and it's an extreme.
Quote examples
Honore de Balzac
French Novelist
Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
Quote examples
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
French Philosopher
It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.
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Ray Bradbury
American Writer
I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.
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Juliette Lewis
American Actress
I can tell you I have dealt with mania my whole life.
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Sylvester Stallone
American Actor
I have a fear of heights that borders on mania.
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Dave Pelzer
American Writer
There's a lot of Dave mania when I speak.
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James Gleick
American Author
We choose mania over boredom every time.
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Jeff Bridges
American Actor
Mania is a wonderful feeling.
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