One-Word Substitutions: Manias and Obsessions
- Ablutomanina: Mania for washing oneself
- Aboulomania: Pathological indecisiveness
- Agromanina: Intense desire to be in open spaces
- Andromanina: An obsession with men
- Anglomania: Craze or obsession with England and the English
- Anthomania: Obsession with flowers
- Aphrodisiomania: Abnormal sexual interest
- Arithmomania: Obsessive preoccupation with numbers
- Balletomania: Craze for books or reading
- Bruxomania: Compulsion for grinding teeth
- Cacodemomania: Pathological belief that one is inhabited by an evil spirit
- Catapedamania: Obsession with jumping from high places
- Chinamania: Obsession with collecting china
- Choreomania: Dancing mania or frenzy
- Clinomania: Excessive desire to stay in bed
- Copromania: Obsession with feces
- Cytheromania: Nymphomania
- Dacnomania: Obsession with killing
- Demonomania: Pathological belief that one is possessed demons
- Dinomania: Mania for dancing
- Dipsomania: Abnormal craving for alcohol
- Discomania: Obsession for disco music
- Doramania: Obsession with owning furs
- Doromania: Obsession with giving gifts
- Drapetomania: Intense desire to run away from home
- Dromomania: Compulsive longing for travel
- Ecdemomania: Abnormal compulsion for wandering
- Egomania: Irrational self-centered attitude or selfworship
- Eeleutheromania: Manic desire for freedom
- Empleomania: Mania for holding public office
- Enosimania: Pathological belief that one has sinned
- Engheomania: Abnormal belief that one is divinely inspired
- Epoania: Craze for writing epics
- Ergasiomania: Excessive desire to work; ergomania
- Ergomania: Excessive desire to work; workabholism
- Erotomania: Abnormally powerful sex drive
- Etheromania: Craving for ether
- Ethomania: Obsessive devotion to one’s own people
- Eulogomania: Obsessive craze for flogging
- Florimania: Craze for flowers
- Francomania: Craze or obsession with France and the French
- Gallomania: Craze or obsession with France and the French
- Gamomania: Obsession with issuing odd marriage proposals
- Graecomania: Obsession with Greece and the Greeks
- Graphomania: Obsession with writing
- Gynaecomania: Abnormal sexual obsession with women
- Habromania: Insanity featuring cheerful delusions
- Hagiomania: Mania for sainthood
- Hellenomania: Obsession with Greece and the Greeks; Graecomania
- Hexametermania: Mania for writing in hexameter
- Hieromania: Pathological religious visions or delusions
- Hippomania: Obsession with horses
- Hydromania: Irrational craving for water
- Hylomania: Excessive tendency towards materialism
- Hypermania: Severe mania
- Hypomania: Minor mania
- Hysteromania: Nymphomania
- Iconomania: Obsession with icons or portraits
- Idolomania: Obsession or devotion to idols
- Infomania: Excessive devotion to accumulating facts
- Islomania: Craze or obsession for islands
- Italomania: Obsession with Italy or Italians
- Kleptomania: Irrational predilection for stealing
- Klopemania: Kleptomania
- Logomania: Pathological loquacity
- Lypemania: Extreme pathological mournfulness
- Macromania: Delusion that objects are larger than natural size
- Megalomania: Abnormal tendency towards grand or grandiose behaviour
- Melomania: Craze for music
- Methomania: Morbid craving for alcohol
- Metromania: Insatiable desire for writing verse
- Micromania: Pathological self-deprecation or belief that one is very small
- Monomania: Abnormal obsession with a single thought or ideas
- Morphinomania: Habitual craving or desire for morphine
- Musomania: Obsession with music
- Mythomania: Lying or exaggerating to an abnormal extent
- Narcromania: Uncontrollable craving for narcotics
- Necromania: Sexual obsession with dead bodies; necrophila
- Nosomania: Delusion of suffering from disease
- Nostomania: Abnormal desire to go back to familiar places
- Nymphomania: Excessive or crazed sexual desire
- Oenomania: Obsession or craze for wine
- Oligomania: Obsession with a few thoughts or ideas
- Oniomania: Mania for making purchases
- Onomamania: Mania for names
- Onomatomania: Irresistible desire to repeat certain words
- Onychotillomania: Compulsive picking at the fingernails
- Opiomania: Craving for opium
- Opsomania: Abnormal love for one kind of food
- Orchidomania: Abnormal obsession with orchids
- Parouciamania: Obsession with the second coming of Christ
- Pathomania: Moral insanity
- Peotillomania: Abnormal compulsion for pulling on the penis
- Phagomania: Excessive desire for food or eating
- Phaneromania: Habit of biting one’s nails
- Pharmacomania: Abnormal obsession with trying drugs
- Phonomania: Pathological tendency to murder
- Photomania: Pathological desire for light
- Phyllomania: Excessive or abnormal production of leaves
- Phytomania: Obsession with collecting plants
- Planomania: Abnormal desire to wander and disobey social norms
- Plutomania: Mania for money
- Polemomania: Mania for war
- Politicomania: Mania for politics
- Polkamania: Craze for polka dancing
- Polymania: Mania affecting several different mental faculties
- Poriomania: Abnormal compulsion to wander
- Pornomania: Obsession with pornography
- Potichomania: Craze for imitating Oriental porcelain
- Potomania: Abnormal desire to drink alcohol
- Pseudomania: Irrational predilection for lying
- Pteridomania: Passion for ferns
- Pyromania: Craze for starting fires
- Rhinotillexomania: Compulsive nose picking
- Rinkomania: Obsession with skating
- Satyromania: Abnormally great male sexual desire; satyriasis
- Scribbleomania: Obsession with scribbling
- Sebastomania: Religious insanity
- tiomania: Morbid aversion to food
- Sophomania: Delusion that one is incredibly intelligent
- Squandermania: Irrational propensity for sending money wastefully
- Stampomania: Obsession with stamp-collecting
- Syphilomania: Pathological belief that one is afflicted with syphilis
- Technomania: Craze for technology
- Teutomania: Obsession with Teutonic or German things
- Thanatomania: Belief that one has been affected by death magic, and resulting illness
- Theatromania: Craze of going to plays
- Theoania: Belief that one is a god
- Timbromania: Craze for stamp collecting
- Tomomania: Irrational predilection for performing surgery
- Toxicomania: Morbid craving for poisons
- Trichotillomania: Neurosis where patient pulls out own hair
- Tulipomania: Obsession with tulips
- Typhomania: Delirious state resulting from typhus fever
- Typomania: Craze for printing one’s lucubration
- Uranomania: Obsession with the idea of divinity
- Verbomania: Craze for words
- Xenomania: Inordinate attachment to foreign things
- Zoomania: Insane fondness for animals
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