mania

6 definitions • 6 examples

a very strong interest in something that fills a person's mind or uses up all their time:

So why your sudden mania for exercise?

The article describes the religious mania that is sweeping the US.

a state in which someone directs all their attention to one particular thing:

Van Gogh suffered from acute persecution mania.

She's always cleaning - it's like a mania with her.

a state of extreme physical and mental activity, often involving a loss of judgment and periods of euphoria

a very strong interest in the stated thing, especially among a large group of people:

Beatle-mania swept Britain in the 1960s.

a unusually strong and continuing interest in an activity or subject:

He was surprised by his wife’s sudden mania for exercise.

a mental illness that causes a person to be in a state of extreme physical and mental activity