mania
US: /ˈmeɪniə/
UK: /mˈeɪniɐ/
UK: /mˈeɪniɐ/
English Vietnamese dictionary
mania /'meinjə/
- danh từ
- chứng điên, chứng cuồng
- tính gàn, tính kỳ quặc
- tính ham mê, tính nghiện
- to have a mania for moving picture: nghiện phim ảnh
Advanced English dictionary
+ noun
1 [C, usually sing, U] ~ (for sth / for doing sth) an extremely strong desire or enthusiasm for sth, often shared by a lot of people at the same time: He had a mania for fast cars. + Football mania is sweeping the country.
2 [U] (psychology) a mental illness in which sb has an OBSESSION about sth that makes them extremely anxious, violent or confused: She was diagnosed as suffering from persecution mania.
combining form
(in nouns) mental illness of a particular type: kleptomania
-maniac (in nouns): a pyromaniac
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
1 rage, craze, passion, obsession, compulsion, urge, fascination, preoccupation, furore or US furor, yearning, craving, desire, cacoethes, Colloq fad, yen:
By that time, the hula hoop mania had died down. She has a mania for collecting apostle spoons
2 madness, lunacy, insanity, dementia, derangement, hysteria, Technical manic disorder:
The psychiatrists diagnosed his problem as a mania.
Collocation dictionary
1 extreme enthusiasm for sth
ADJ.
gambling, railway, sex, etc.
VERB + MANIA
have
PREP.
~ for
She had a mania for fast cars.
2 serious mental illness
ADJ.
collective
The violence of the crowd can only be explained as a sign of some collective mania.
| religious
VERB + MANIA
suffer from
PHRASES
a state of mania
Concise English dictionary
manias'meɪnjə
noun
+an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action
+a mood disorder; an affective disorder in which the victim tends to respond excessively and sometimes violently
