List of Mania

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.

A
 Ablutomania, washing or cleaning oneself => [abluto-] (Latin) meaning 'washing' or
'cleaning' (see ablutophobia, opposite]
 Aboulomania, indecisiveness => [aboulo-] (Greek) meaning 'irresolution' or 'indecision'
 Acronymania, acronyms => [acro-] (Greek) meaning 'highest', 'top', 'tip end' or
'outermost' | [-onym, -nym] (Greek) meaning 'name' or 'word'
 Agromania, being in open spaces => [agro-] (Greek) meaning 'land', 'soil', 'field', 'earth'
or 'wild'
 Aidoiomania, sexual intercourse
 Ailuromania, cats => [ailuro-] (Greek) meaning 'cat'
 Alcoholomania, alcohol => [alcohol-] (Arabic > Latin) meaning 'alcohol'
 Andromania, human sexual behaviour/desire towards males (in females only) [obsolete -
replaced by synonyms: hypersexuality, nymphomania, cytheromania or hysteromania] =>
[andro-] (Greek) meaning 'man', 'men', 'male' or 'masculine'
 Androphonomania, homicidal insanity => [andro-] (Greek) meaning 'man', 'male' |
[phono-] (Greek) meaning 'slaughter', 'kill', 'murder', 'homicide'
 Anglomania, England and the English (a passion or obsession with the English i.e.
anglophile) (see anglophobia, opposite)
 Anthomania, flowers => [antho-] (Greek) meaning 'flower' (see anthophobia, opposite)
 Aphrodisiomania, sexual interest => [-aphrodisia] (Greek) meaning 'Greek goddess of
love'
 Apimania, bees (a passion or obsession with bees) => [api-] (Latin) meaning 'bee' (see
ariphobia i.e. fear of bees, opposite)
 Arithomania, numbers & counting (a passion or obsession with counting) [synonym -
arithmomania] => [arith-] (Greek) meaning 'number'
 Arithmomania, numbers & counting [synonym - arithomania]]] => [arithmo-] (Greek)
meaning 'number'
B
 balletomania, ballet
 Beatlemania, the Beatles (an obsession with the Beatles)
 bibliokleptomania, stealing books => [biblio-] (Greek) meaning 'books' | [klepto-]
(Greek) meaning 'stealing' or 'stealing'
 bibliomania, books & reading => [biblio-] (Greek) meaning 'books'
 Bracteomania, excessive production of bracts, a type of leaf (in plants only) => [bracte-]
(Latin) meaning thin 'plate'
 bruxomania, grinding of the teeth => [bruxo-] (Greek) meaning 'grinding or gnashing the
teeth'
 brycomania, severe bruxomania

C
 cacodaemomania, one's own inhabitation by evil spirits (delusional conviction) [synonym
- cacodemomania] => [caco-] (Greek) meaning 'bad', 'evil' or 'unpleasant') | [daemon-]
(Greek) 'devil','demon', 'evil spirit', 'an intermediary spirit between gods and men which
could be good or evil'

 cacodemomania, one's own inhabitation by evil spirits (delusional conviction) [synonym

- cacodaemomania] => [caco-] (Greek) meaning 'bad', 'evil' or 'unpleasant') | [demon-]
(Greek) 'devil','demon', 'evil spirit', 'an intermediary spirit between gods and men which
could be good or evil'

 cacospectomania, staring at repulsive things => [caco-] (Greek: 'bad', 'evil' or

'unpleasant') | [spect-] (Latin) meaning 'see', 'look', 'behold' or 'examine')
 capnomanioa, smoking tobacco products => [capno-] (Greek) meaning 'smoke', 'sooty' or
'carbon dioxide'
 callomania, one's own beauty (delusional conviction) => [callo-] (Greek) meaning
'beautiful'
 catapedamania, jumping from high places => [cata-] (Greek] meaning 'downward' or
'lower' | [ped-] (Greek) 'ground', 'earth'
 cheromania, gaiety
 chinamania, china
 chiomomania, snow => [chion-] (Greek) meaning 'snow' or 'like snow'
 chiromania, masturbation (in males only) => [chiro-] (Greek) meaning 'hand' or
'pertaining to the hand or hands'
 choreomania, dancing [synonym - choromania] => [choreo-] (Greek) meaning 'dance'
 choromania, dancing [synonym - choreomania] => [choro-] (Greek) meaning 'dance'
 cremnomania, climbing cliffs => [cremno-] (Latin) meaning 'precipice', 'cliff' or 'crag').
 cresomania, great wealth
 clinomania, staying in bed => [clino-] (Greek) meaning 'bed'
 chloralomania, chloral (alcohol and chlorine)
 copromania, feces => [copro-] (Greek) meaning 'feces', 'excrement', 'filth'
 cynomania, dogs => [cyno-] (Greek) meaning 'dog'
 cytheromania, human sexual behaviour/desire towards males (in females only)
[synonyms - nymphomania & hysteromania] => [cyther-] (Greek) referring to 'Kytheria' -
another name for Venus (Roman goddess of love) or Aphrodite (Greek goddess of love)

D
 dacnomania, biting (oneself, others or objects).
 decidomania, decisions {see decidophobia}.
 demonomania, one's own demonic possession (delusional conviction).
 dendromania, trees and forest => [dendro-] (Greek) meaning 'tree').
 decalcomania, decal (decorative technique of transferring specially prepared paper prints
to ceramic surfaces i.e. glass, porcelain, etc.).
 desanimania, mindless insanity (condition) => [anim-] (Latin) 'living', 'soul' or 'mind'
 dermatillomania, picking at the skin.
 dinomania, dancing [alternate definition: - dinosaur obsession].
 dinomania, dinosaurs [alternate definition: - dancing obsession].

 dipsomania, alcohol => [dipso-] (Greek) meaning 'thirst'.

 discomania, disco music
 doramania, furs ownership
 doromania, giving gifts => [dat-, dow-, don-, dit-] (Greek > Latin) meaning 'to give', 'to
grant' or 'to offer'.
 drapetomania, running away from home [pseudoscience]
 dromomania, travel
 dysmorphomania, one's physical deformity or abnormality (delusional conviction)

E
 ecdemomania, wandering => [ecdemo-] (Greek) meaning 'away from home').
 ecomania, family dominance but authority submission => [eco-] (Greek) meaning 'home,
household affairs').
 edeomania, genitals => [edeo-] (Greek) meaning 'genitals' literally, 'those things that are
regarded with reverence or awe'.
 egomania, oneself and self-worship => [ego-] (Latin) meaning 'I - first person/singular
pronoun').
 eleutheromania, freedom => [eleuthero-] (Greek) meaning 'freedom'.
 emetomania, vomiting => [emeto-] (Greek) meaning 'regurgitate'.
 empleomania, holding public office.
 enomania, wine [synonym oenomania] => [oeno-, eno-] (Greek) meaning 'wine'.
 enosimania, one's own sinful behaviour (delusional conviction)
 entheomania, one's divine inspiration (delusional conviction) => [theo-] (Greek) meaning
'deity' or 'divine').
 entomomania, insects => [entomon] (Greek) meaning 'insect'
 epomania, writing epics
 eremiomania, stillness and solitude => [eraemia] (Greek) meaning 'solitude'
 ergasiomania, work [synonym - ergomania] => [ergasio- or ergo-] (Greek) meaning
'work'.
 ergomania, work [synonym - ergasiomania] => [ergasio- or ergo-] (Greek) meaning
'work'.
 erotomania, 1) sexual desire 2) sexual attraction from strangers (delusional conviction)
=> [eroto-] (Greek) meaning 'sexual passion' or 'desire'.
 erythomania, blushing
 esthesiomania, insanity with sensory hallucinations [condition] => [esthesio-] (Greek)
meaning 'sensation' or 'perception'.
 etheromania, ether => [ethero-] (Greek > Latin) meaning 'upper air' or 'sky'.
 ethnomania, one's own people => [ethno-] (Greek) meaning 'race', 'nation', 'family' or
'community'.
 eulogomania, eulogies

F
 flagellomania, flogging => [flagello-] (Latin) meaning 'whip'.
 florimania, flowers => [flori-] (Latin) meaning 'flower'.
 francomania, France and the French [see gallomania]

 fumomania, smoking => [fum-] (Latin) 'smoke', 'vapor'

G
 gallomania, France and the French [see francomania] => [gallo-] (Latin) meaning
'pertaining to Gaul'.
 gamomania, issuing odd and/or extravagant marriage proposals => [gamo-] (Greek)
meaning 'marriage' or 'wedding').
 Graecomania, Greece and the Greeks [see Hellenomania]
 graphomania, writing => [grapho-] (Greek) meaning 'to write'.
 gynaecomania, sexual interest for women => [gynaeco-] (Greek) meaning 'woman'.

H
 habromania, gaiety and euphoria
 hagiomania, sainthood => [hagio-] (Greek) meaning 'sacred' or 'holy'
 Hellenomania, Greece and the Greeks [see Graecomania]
 hexametromania, hexameter writing
 hieromania, religious visions => [hiero-] (Greek) meaning 'sacred' or 'holy'.
 hippomania, 1) horses (A passion or obsession with horses[1] as well as a madness in
horses[2]) => [hippo-] (Greek) meaning 'horse' [see hippophobia (opposite)] 2)
hippopotamuses (passion or obsession with hippopotamuses [3] => [hippo-] (Greek)
meaning 'horse' & [ potamos ] (Greek) meaning 'river'.
 hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliomania, long words (excessive and persistent use of long
words) [see hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliomania (opposite)]
 hulkamania, the fandom of Hulk Hogan
 hydromania, water => [hydro-] (Greek) meaning 'water'.
  hylomania, 1) materialism => [hylo-] (Greek) meaning 'materialism' or 'wood' 2) wood
=> [hylo-] (Greek) meaning 'materialism' or 'wood'.
 hypermania, (severe mania) mental state with high intensity disorientation and often
violent behavior - symptomatic of bipolar disorder => [hyper-] (Greek) meaning
'abnormal excess'.
 hypomania, (mild mania) mental state with persistent and pervasive elevated or irritable
mood - symptomatic of manic-depression => [hypo-] (Greek) meaning 'deficient'.
 hysteromania, human sexual behaviour/desire towards males (females only) [synonyms -
nymphomania, cytheromania] => [hystero-] (Greek) meaning "the womb' or 'uterus'.

I
 iconomania, icons or portraits
 idolomania, idols
 infomania, fact accumulation
 islomania, islands
 Italomania, Italy or Italians


K
 kleptomania, stealing [synonym klopemania]
 klopemania, stealing [synonym kleptomania]

L
 logomania, Wordy and talkative i.e. loquacity
 lypemania, mournfulness
 Lisztomania, Franz Liszt (an obsession with Franz Liszt)

M
 macromania, objects larger than natural size
 mania, severely elevated mood
 Maniamania, Manias
 megalomania, wealth and power
 monomania, a single object, type of object, or concept.
 melomania, music
 methomania, alcohol
 metromania, writing verse
 micromania, self-deprecation
 monomania, single thought or idea
 morphinomania, morphine
 morsusmania, biting
 musomania, music
 mythomania, lying
N
 narcomania, narcotics
 necromania, sexual with dead bodies [synonym - necrophilia]
 nymphomania, an obsolete term for female hypersexuality
 nosomania, one's own suffering of disease

O
 oenomania, wine
 oligomania, a couple of thoughts, ideas or subjects
 onomatomania, word repetition
 oniomania, desire to shop
 onomamania, names
 onychotillomania, picking at the fingernails
 opiomania, opium
 opsomania, one kind of food
 orchidomania, orchids

P
 parousiamania, The second coming of Christ
 paramania, complaints
 pathomania, moral insanity
 phagomania, excessive desire for food or eating
 phaneromania, biting one’s nails
 pharmacomania, trying drugs
 phonomania, murdering people
 photomania, light
 phyllomania, excessive or abnormal leaf production (in plants only) => phyllo- (Greek),
meaning 'leaf or sheet'
 phytomania, collecting plants => phyto- (Greek), meaning 'plant'
 planomania, wander free from social restraints or obligations => plano- (Greek) meaning
'passively drifting, wandering, or roaming'
 plutomania, money or wealth => ploutos- (Greek), meaning 'wealth'
 polemomania, war => polemo- (Greek), meaning 'battle'
 politicomania, politics
 polkamania, polka dancing
 polymania, mania affecting several different mental faculties
 poriomania, wandering or journeying away from home => poreia (Greek) meaning
'journey'
 pornomania, pornography
 potichomania, imitating Oriental porcelain
  potomania, drinking alcohol
 Pottermania, Harry Potter
 pseudomania, 1) lying or falsity; 2) Feigned insanity; 3) Falsely alleging responsibility
for a crime.
 pteridomania, ferns
 pyromania, fire or starting fires

R
 rhinotillexomania, nose picking => rhino- (Greek) meaning "nose"; tillexis- (Greek)
meaning "to pluck, tear, pull or pick at"
 rinkomania, skating

S
 satyromania, sexual desire (in males only) => satyrisis (Late Latin); saturisis (Greek),
Excessive, often uncontrollable sexual desire in and behavior by a man => satyr (Greek >
Latin) meaning a "woodland deity, part man and part goat; riotous merriment and
lechery"
 scribbleomania, scribbling
 sebastomania, religious insanity
 sitiomania, appetite => sitio- (Greek) meaning "food; eating; appetite"
 sophomania, belief in one's own incredible intelligence
 squandermania, spending money wastefully
 stampomania, stamp-collecting
 syphilomania, belief in one's own syphilis affliction

T
 technomania, technology
 Teutomania, Teutonic or German things
 thanatomania, belief in one's own infection by "death magic" and the resulting illness
 theatromania, performing plays
 theomania, one's own divinity or one's divine mission.
 timbromania, stamp collecting
 trichotillomania, hair removal
 timbromania, stamp collecting
 tomomania, performing surgery
 toxicomania, poisons
 trichotillomania, removing one's own hair
 titillomaniac, scratching
 tulipomania, tulips
 typhomania, typhus fever delirium
 typomania, printing one’s works
U
 uranomania, divinity

V
 verbomania, words

X
 xenomania, foreign things

Z
 zoomania, animals (an obsession with animals) (see zoophobia, opposite)