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< Mani

-mania >

ma·ni·a

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) KEY

NOUN:

An excessively intense enthusiasm, interest, or desire; a craze: a mania for neatness.
Psychiatry A manifestation of bipolar disorder, characterized by profuse and rapidly changing ideas, exaggerated sexuality, gaiety, or irritability, and decreased sleep.
Violent abnormal behavior. See Synonyms at insanity.

ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English, madness, from Late Latin, from Greek mani; see men- ¹ in Indo-European roots

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