mania — OAT · Shobdo

mania

noun

1 she suffered from fits of mania:

madness, derangement, dementia, insanity, lunacy, dementedness, psychosis, schizophrenia, mental illness, delirium, frenzy, hysteria, raving, violence, wildness.

2 he has a mania for gadgets:

obsession, compulsion, fixation, fetish, fascination, preoccupation, passion, enthusiasm, desire, urge, craving, craze, fad, rage;

informal thing, yen;

rare cacoethes.