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Webster 1913 Edition
Mania
Ma′ni-a
,Noun.
[L. ,
mania
, Gr. [GREEK], fr. [GREEK] to rage; cf. OE. manie
, F. manie
. Cf. Mind
, Noun.
Necromancy
.] 1.
Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity. Cf.
Delirium
. 2.
Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people;
as, the tulip
. mania
Mania a potu
[L.]
, madness from drinking; delirium tremens.
Syn. – Insanity; derangement; madness; lunacy; alienation; aberration; delirium; frenzy. See
Insanity
. Webster 1828 Edition
Mania
MA'NIA
,Noun.
Definition 2024
Mania
mania
mania
English
Noun
mania (countable and uncountable, plural manias)
- Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity.
- Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; fanaticism.
- 2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
- 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.
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- (psychiatry) The state of abnormally elevated or irritable mood, arousal, and/or energy levels.
Related terms
Translations
violent derangement
excessive desire
state of abnormally elevated or irritable mood, arousal, and/or energy levels
Anagrams
Finnish
Etymology 1
Noun
mania
Declension
| Inflection of mania (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | mania | maniat | |
| genitive | manian | manioiden manioitten |
|
| partitive | maniaa | manioita | |
| illative | maniaan | manioihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | mania | maniat | |
| accusative | nom. | mania | maniat |
| gen. | manian | ||
| genitive | manian | manioiden manioitten maniainrare |
|
| partitive | maniaa | manioita | |
| inessive | maniassa | manioissa | |
| elative | maniasta | manioista | |
| illative | maniaan | manioihin | |
| adessive | manialla | manioilla | |
| ablative | manialta | manioilta | |
| allative | manialle | manioille | |
| essive | maniana | manioina | |
| translative | maniaksi | manioiksi | |
| instructive | — | manioin | |
| abessive | maniatta | manioitta | |
| comitative | — | manioineen | |
Etymology 2
Noun
mania
- Partitive singular form of mani.
Anagrams
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ma.nja/
Verb
mania
- first-person singular past historic of manier
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology 1
From Ancient Greek μανία (manía).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈma.ni.a/
Noun
mania f (genitive maniae); first declension
Inflection
First declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | mania | maniae |
| genitive | maniae | maniārum |
| dative | maniae | maniīs |
| accusative | maniam | maniās |
| ablative | maniā | maniīs |
| vocative | mania | maniae |
Descendants
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈmaː.ni.a/
Adjective
mānia
- inflection of mānis:
- nominative neuter plural
- accusative neuter plural
- vocative neuter plural
References
- mania in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- MANIA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- mania in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- mania in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
Tahitian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /maˈni.a/
Adjective
mania
References
- Yves Lemaître, Lexique du tahitien contemporain (Current Tahitian lexicon), 1995.
- “mania” in Dictionnaire en ligne Tahitien/Français (Online Tahitian–French Dictionary), by the Tahitian Academy.