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Thursday, February 20, 2025

Twenty Manias Of The Mind

It's a mania, mania that's for sure. And these manias are some you've never before heard. Or maybe you have. Regardless, someone out there may suffer from one of these. What do you call someone who is a fan of manias?
  1. Balletomania:
    • An extraordinary enthusiasm for ballets.
  2. Clinomania:
    • A state of finding it hard to get out of bed in the morning
  3. Demonomania:
    • A delusion that one is possessed by devils.
  4. Eleutheromania:
    • A great desire for or obsession with freedom.
  5. Flagellomania:
    • A penchant for whipping, or being whipped.
  6. Graphomania:
    • The compulsion to write books.
  7. Hippomania:
    • A passion for horses.
  8. Infomania:
    • A strong desire to know or learn something
  9. Kleptomania:
    • An uncontrollable obsession with stealing
  10. Logomania:
    • A way with words
  11. Monomania:
    • Excessive interest or concentration on a singular object or subject
  12. Nostomania:
    • an overwhelming desire to return to familiar surroundings, or to one's home
  13. Opsomania:
    • A longing for a particular special food.
  14. Phyllomania:
    • The over-production of leaves by a plant (usually a tree).
  15. Romania:
    • A country in South-Eastern Europe, bordered by Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria, Moldova and Ukraine. Ha!
  16. Squandermania:
    • Excessive expenditure by a government on a supposedly prestigious project
  17. Trichotillomania:
    • A medical disorder in which the patient compulsively pulls his/her own hair out.
  18. Verbomania:
    • Excessive in language
  19. Xenomania:
    • A strong preference for foreign customs, manners, or institutions; the gaining of pleasure from meeting strangers or visiting foreign countries.
  20. Zoomania:
    • An excessive or abnormal love of animals.

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