mania

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I'm an American and I will back him but this whole Obama mania is a little scary and it almost feels like it's not about a new president bringing fresh ideas to the table, however more like RACE!

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

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  • One of the most familiar symptoms of morphia mania is a tendency to erotic hallucinations of the precise kind that Branwell suffered from. —  The Three Brontes
  • Obama-mania was also on full display in Baden-Baden when he arrived as well. —  Free Internet Press
  • Mats Sundin-mania was all the rage this summer and nothing has changed to date. —  Tsn.ca Top Stories RSS
  • But back in the 1980s, when Indy-mania was at its peak, savvy, penny-pinching filmmakers slapped together films like Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold. —  Film.com Movie Blog
  • Despite another week of Palin-mania, the polls, released at the —  NDN blogs
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thanatomania · onomatomania · habromania · logomonomania · emetomania · pyromania · bentholaryngomania · kleptobibliomania · sophomania · catapedamania · cacodaemonomania

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  1. Middle English, madness, from Late Latin, from Greek maniā; see men-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English manie (see manie), from Middle English manie, from Old French manie, French manie = Spanish mania = Portuguese Italian mania; from Latin mania, madness (a disease of cattle), Middle Latin New Latin insanity, from Greek μανία, madness, frenzy, from μαίνεσθαι, rage, be mad; akin to μένος, mind, μη̄νις, wrath, etc.: see mind.
 

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