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mania en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈmæɪ.ni.ə/ (Australia, New-Zealand)
  • /-nɪ-/ (Scotland)
  • /ˈmeɪ.ni.ə/ (Received-Pronunciation, US)
  • /ˈmɛjnɪjə/ (British, Southern, Standard)
  • /ˈme.ne.ə/ (Scotland)
  • /-ni-/ (Scotland)
  • /ˈmeːni.ə/ (Wales) without the pane–pain merger

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *men- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *mn̥yétorder. Proto-Hellenic *məňňómai Ancient Greek μαίνομαι (maínomai) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ f (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek μᾰνῐ́ᾱ (mănĭ́ā)der. Latin maniabor. English mania Borrowed from Latin mania, from Ancient Greek μανία (manía, “madness”).

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity.
  2. (countable, uncountable) Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; fanaticism.
    • 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. 2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845, archived from the original on 17 Jul 2020:
    • One of the manias of the present day, which especially excites my spleen, is the locomotive rage which seems to possess all ranks—that necessity of going out of town in the summer... 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIX, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 233:
    • The eugenics mania that swept the country in the late 19th and early 20th centuries led to forced sterilizations and the passage of laws in 27 states designed to limit the numbers of those considered genetically unfit: immigrants, Jews, African-Americans, the mentally ill and those deemed “morally delinquent.” 2018 October 16, John Blake, “When Americans tried to breed a better race: How a genetic fitness ‘crusade’ marches on”, in CNN:
  3. (countable, uncountable) The state of abnormally elevated or irritable mood, arousal, and/or energy levels.

Forms

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Deriveds

-mania · supermania · grandomania · transmania · antimania · tulip mania · hypermania · Cumbermania · logomania · maniaphobia · monomania · Monkmania · gold mania · gourmania · maniaphobe · charismania · mania-like · Illyromania · dancing mania · opiomania

Descendants

マニア

Relateds

manic · -mania · dipsomania · megalomania · maniac

Translations (50)

hu szenvedély (excessive desire) · gl teima (excessive desire) · cmn 躁狂癥 /躁狂症 (an excessive enthusiasm or desire; an obsession) · scn manìa (an excessive enthusiasm or desire; an obsession) · el μανία (excessive desire) · it mania (an excessive enthusiasm or desire; an obsession) · scn manìa (state of abnormally elevated or irritable mood, arousal, and/or energy levels) · bg мания (an excessive enthusiasm or desire; an obsession) · es manía (excessive desire) · hu mánia (excessive desire) · cmn 狂熱 /狂热 (excessive desire) · scn manìa (excessive desire) · el μανία (an excessive enthusiasm or desire; an obsession) · bg мания (excessive desire) · nn mani (excessive desire) · pt mania (excessive desire) · gl manía (excessive desire) · ru ма́ния (an excessive enthusiasm or desire; an obsession) · nl manie (an excessive enthusiasm or desire; an obsession) · da mani (an excessive enthusiasm or desire; an obsession) · fi mania (an excessive enthusiasm or desire; an obsession) · fi mania (state of abnormally elevated or irritable mood, arousal, and/or energy levels) · fi mania (excessive desire) · sv mani (an excessive enthusiasm or desire; an obsession) · de Manie (excessive desire) · nn mani (an excessive enthusiasm or desire; an obsession) · ro mânie (an excessive enthusiasm or desire; an obsession) · de Fimmel (excessive desire) · hy մոլուցք (an excessive enthusiasm or desire; an obsession) · ja 躁病 (an excessive enthusiasm or desire; an obsession) · gl teima (an excessive enthusiasm or desire; an obsession) · fi vimma (an excessive enthusiasm or desire; an obsession) · pl mania (excessive desire) · ca mania (excessive desire) · fr manie (an excessive enthusiasm or desire; an obsession) · it mania (excessive desire) · pl mania (state of abnormally elevated or irritable mood, arousal, and/or energy levels) · hu imádat (excessive desire) · es manía (an excessive enthusiasm or desire; an obsession) · hu fanatizmus (excessive desire) · nb mani (an excessive enthusiasm or desire; an obsession) · de Manie (an excessive enthusiasm or desire; an obsession) · ca mania (an excessive enthusiasm or desire; an obsession) · nb mani (excessive desire) · pdt Wonsenn (an excessive enthusiasm or desire; an obsession) · pt insanidade (an excessive enthusiasm or desire; an obsession) · pl mania (an excessive enthusiasm or desire; an obsession) · sv vurm (excessive desire) · grc λύσσα (an excessive enthusiasm or desire; an obsession) · nl manie (excessive desire)