List of manias
The English suffix -mania denotes an obsession with something; a mania. The suffix is used in some medical terms denoting mental disorders. It has also entered standard English and is affixed to many different words to denote enthusiasm or obsession with that subject. Cambridge Dictionary has defined mania as “a very strong interest in something that fills a person's mind or uses up all their time” defined mania as a mental illness in which a person becomes very emotional or excited.
Psychological conditions
A
- Aboulomania – indecisiveness
- Andromania – human sexual behaviour and desire towards males in females Can be replaced by hypersexuality, nymphomania, cytheromania, hysteromania or aphrodisiomania.
- Anglomania – England and a passion or obsession with the English See also anglophobia.
- Arithmomania, arithmomania – numbers and counting
- Ablutomania - Mania for washing oneself
- Agromania - Intense desire to be in open spaces
- Anthomania - Obsession with flowers
B
- Bibliomania – books and reading
C
- Choreomania, choromania – dancing
D
- Demonomania – one's own demonic possession
- Dermatillomania – picking at the skin
- Dipsomania – alcohol
- Drapetomania – running away from home
- Dromomania – traveling
E
- Egomania – obsession with oneself and self-worship
- Ergomania, ergasiomania – work
- Erotomania – sexual desire or sexual attraction from strangers
- Etheromania – addiction to diethyl ether
- Eleutheromania – an intense and irresistible desire for freedom
G
- Graphomania – writing or making lists
- Gigantomania - is the production of unusually and superfluously large works.
H
- Hypermania – severe mania—mental state with high intensity disorientation and often violent behavior, symptomatic of bipolar disorder
- Hypomania – mild mania—mental state with persistent and pervasive elevated or irritable mood, symptomatic of bipolar disorder
K
- Kleptomania, klopemania – urge to steal
- Klazomania – screaming
L
M
- Mania – severely elevated mood
- Megalomania – wealth and power
- Micromania – self-deprecation
- Monomania – a single object, type of object, or concept
- Mythomania – compulsive lying
- Melomania – excessive or abnormal love of music
N
- Nymphomania – an obsolete term for female hypersexuality
O
- Oniomania – desire to shop
- Onychotillomania – picking at the fingernails
P
- Plutomania – greed/obsession with money or wealth
- Politicomania - obsession with politics
- Pteridomania – ferns
- Pyromania – fire or starting fires
R
S
- Satyromania – excessive, often uncontrollable sexual desire in and behavior by a man
T
- Theomania – one's own divinity or one's divine mission
- Toxicomania – poisons
- Trichotillomania – pulling out one's hair
- Typomania – printing one's works
Pop culture and celebrities
The -mania suffix is also used to describe immense appreciations and fandoms that are not necessarily psychological, including popular culture and politics.- Balloonomania – 18th and 19th century interest in hot-air balloons
- Bartmania – American television series The Simpsons, early 1990s
- Beatlemania – English band the Beatles, 1960s
- Dalekmania – Dalek characters from Doctor Who, 1965
- Dianamania – Diana, Princess of Wales, 1980s and 1990s
- Jacksonmania – Michael Jackson and The Jackson 5
- Leo-mania – American actor Leonardo DiCaprio, late 1990s
- Lisztomania – Hungarian composer Franz Liszt, 1840s
- Littlermania - British darts player Luke Littler, and the sport overall, from 2024
- Madonnamania - American singer Madonna, from 1985
- Mansell-mania – British racing driver Nigel Mansell, 1980s–1995
- Pineapple mania – early 18th century to mid-to-late-19th century fascination with pineapples
- Pokémania - Video game franchise Pokémon, 1999 to 2000
- Sinatramania – American singer Frank Sinatra, mid-1940s
- Swiftmania – American singer Taylor Swift, 2020s
Politics
- Corbynmania – British Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn
- Jacindamania – New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern
- Obama-mania – United States president and senator Barack Obama, late 2000s and early 2010s
- Trudeaumania – the Canadian politician Pierre Trudeau
- Tulipomania – a metaphor for an economic bubble