manianoun [ C or U ]
uk/ˈmeɪ.ni.ə/us/ˈmeɪ.ni.ə/mania noun [ C or U ] (STRONG INTEREST)
disapproving 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.
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Passionate or passing interests
- craze
- cult
- drug
- fad
- faddism
- fancy
- kick
- mania
- passion
- religion
- ruling
- sb's ruling passion idiom
mania noun [ C or U ] (MENTAL ILLNESS)
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.
specialized psychology a state of extreme physical and mental activity, often involving a loss of judgment and periods of euphoria
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Continually thinking about
- absorb
- absorbed
- axe
- be devoured by sth idiom
- be hung up on sth idiom
- be wrapped up in sth/sb idiom
- devour
- fixated
- fixation
- get into sb
- have an axe to grind idiom
- have sth on the brain idiom
- nag
- obsession
- obsessive
- one-track mind
- preoccupation
- preoccupied
- preoccupy
- prey on sth
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