-mania - meaning and definition. What is -mania
Diclib.com
ChatGPT AI Dictionary
Enter a word or phrase in any language 👆
Language:

Translation and analysis of words by ChatGPT artificial intelligence

On this page you can get a detailed analysis of a word or phrase, produced by the best artificial intelligence technology to date:

  • how the word is used
  • frequency of use
  • it is used more often in oral or written speech
  • word translation options
  • usage examples (several phrases with translation)
  • etymology

What (who) is -mania - definition

SUFFIX
Glossary of manias; -mania; Anthomania

-mania         
¦ combining form Psychology
1. denoting a specified type of mental abnormality or obsession: kleptomania.
2. denoting extreme enthusiasm or admiration: Beatlemania.
Derivatives
-maniac combining form.
Glossary of manias         
The English suffix -mania denotes an obsession with something; a mania. The suffix is used in some medical terms denoting mental disorders.
Mania (satrap)         
PERSIAN GOVERNOR
Tania (queen); Mania (queen)
Mania or Manya ()Polyaenus, Stratagems, Book 8, 54 (circa 440 BC - died circa 399 BC), known primarily through Xenophon, was a Persian sub-satrap as the tyrant ruler of ancient Dardanus in Asia Minor.David M.

Wikipedia

List of manias

The English suffix -mania denotes an obsession with something; a mania. The suffix is used in some medical terms denoting mental disorders. It has also entered standard English and is affixed to many different words to denote enthusiasm or obsession with that subject.

Examples of use of -mania
1. The new alpha–mania may be the market‘s latest folly.
2. Now it‘s a mania, a commercially–driven obsession.
3. Some would say that Wiggles mania has reached fever pitch.
4. Catalogue mania is not one of the more glamorous addictions.
5. Witness the iPod, and, more recently, the mania over the iPhone.