mania

• aberration
• abnormality
• appetite
• ax to grind
• bee
• bee in bonnet
• bent
• bug
• bug in ear
• complex
• compulsion
• craving
• craze
• craziness
• delirium
• delusion
• dementedness
• dementia
• derangement
• desire
• disorder
• disposition
• drive
• enthusiasm
• fad
• fancy
• fascination
• fetich
• fetish
• fixation
• fixed idea
• frenzy
• furor
• grabber
• hallucination
• hallucinosis
• hang-up
• hankering
• hunger
• hypomania
• hysteria
• idiosyncrasy
• inclination
• infatuation
• insanity
• instability
• irrationality
• itch
• leaning
• longing
• lunacy
• lust
• madness
• monomania
• neurosis
• obsession
• on the brain
• paranoia
• partiality
• passion
• penchant
• phobia
• pining
• predilection
• predisposition
• preoccupation
• prepossession
• problem
• proclivity
• propensity
• psychosis
• quirk
• rage
• schizophrenia
• senile dementia
• tendency
• thing
• thirst
• tiger
• tiger by the tail
• trip
• unreasonableness
• unsoundness
• urge
• yearning
• yen

• apathy
• balance
• calmness
• conformity
• disinterestedness
• dislike
• disregard
• hate
• hatred
• indifference
• insouciance
• lucidity
• mind
• nonchalance
• normality
• rationality
• rationalness
• reasonability
• reasonableness
• saneness
• sanity
• soundness
• unconcern
• unconcernedness

• noun
  1. Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity.
  2. Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; fanaticism.
  3. The state of abnormally elevated or irritable mood, arousal, and/or energy levels.

• The crowd was swept up in football mania after the team’s big win.
• His obsession with cleaning bordered on mania.
• During periods of mania, she often made impulsive decisions.
• The celebrity's arrival caused a wave of mania among the fans.
• Economic mania gripped the market before the crash.

aberration

yearning

zeal

zealousness

fad

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