mania

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1. mania - Noun

2. Mania - Proper noun

Meaning

Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity. Cf. Delirium.

Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; as, the tulip mania.

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According to film critic Pauline Kael, "Brando represented a reaction against the post-war mania for security. Source: Internet

All I can say is I respect the effort made and this might be the new norm for awhile but I do not advise doing Wrestle mania in the performance center with no crowd. Source: Internet

"Alexander's Ragtime Band" sparked an international dance craze in places as far away as Berlin's native Russia, which also "flung itself into the ragtime beat with an abandon bordering on mania." Source: Internet

Anyone baffled by America’s descent into conspiracy mania would get a dark kick out of Hari Kunzru’s latest, featuring an American scholar in Germany who falls down a rabbit hole over an obscure right-wing cabal related to a TV cop reality show. Source: Internet

But those who suffer from prolonged unresolved hypomania do run the risk of developing full mania, and indeed may cross that "line" without even realizing they have done so. Source: Internet

Around 400 people were afflicted with dancing mania and danced constantly for weeks, most of them eventually dying from heart attack, stroke or exhaustion. Source: Internet

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