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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.

Psychological conditions

• ablutomania, washing oneself
• aboulomania, indecisiveness
• agromania, to be in open spaces
• aidoiomania, sexual intercourse
• andromania, human sexual behaviour/desire towards males (females only) [obsolete - replaced by nymphomania, cytheromania & hysteromania]
• anglomania, England and the English
• anthomania, flowers
• aphrodisiomania, sexual interest
• arithmomania, counting
• balletomania, ballet
• bibliomania, collecting books
• bruxomania, grinding of the teeth
• cacodemomania, one is inhabited by an evil spirit
• catapedamania, jumping from high places
• chinamania, collecting china
• choreomania, dancing
• clinomania, staying in bed
• copromania, feces
• cytheromania, human sexual behaviour/desire towards males (females only)[synonyms - nymphomania & hysteromania]
• dacnomania, killing
• demonomania, one's own demonic possession
• dermatillomania, picking at the skin
• dinomania, dancing [alternate definition: - growing interest in dinosaurs]
• dipsomania, alcohol
• discomania, disco music
• doramania, furs ownership
• doromania, giving gifts
• drapetomania, running away from home [pseudoscience]
• dromomania, travel
• ecdemomania, wandering
• egomania, obsessive preoccupation with the self.
• eleutheromania, freedom
• empleomania, holding public office
• enosimania, one's own sin
• entheomania, one's divine inspiration
• epomania, writing epics
• ergasiomania, work [same as ergomania]
• ergomania, work [same as ergasiomania]
• erotomania, anouther's sexual desire [usually delusional]
• etheromania, ether
• ethnomania, one's own people
• eulogomania, eulogies
• flagellomania, flogging
• florimania, flowers
• francomania, France and the French [see gallomania]
• gallomania, France and the French [see francomania]
• gamomania, issuing odd and/or extravagant marriage proposals
• Graecomania, Greece and the Greeks [see Hellenomania]
• graphomania, writing
• gynaecomania, sexual interest for women
• habromania, gaiety and euphoria
• hagiomania, sainthood
• Hellenomania, Greece and the Greeks [see Graecomania]
• hexametromania, hexameter writing
• hieromania, religious visions
• hippomania, horses
• hydromania, water
• hylomania, materialism
• hypermania, (severe mania) mental state with high intensity disorientation and often violent behavior - symptomatic of bipolar disorder.
• hypomania, (mild mania) mental state with persistent and pervasive elevated or irritable mood - symptomatic of manic-depression.
• hysteromania, human sexual behaviour/desire towards males (females only) [synonyms - nymphomania, cytheromania]
• iconomania, icons or portraits
• idolomania, idols
• infomania, fact accumulation
• islomania, islands
• Italomania, Italy or Italians
• kleptomania, stealing [synonym klopemania]
• klopemania, stealing [synonym kleptomania]
• logomania, loquacity - wordy and talkative
• lypemania, mournfulness
• macromania, objects larger than natural size
• mania, severely elevated mood
• 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
• musomania, music
• mythomania, lying
• narcomania, narcotics
• necromania, sexual with dead bodies [synonym - necrophilia]
• nymphomania, an obsolete term for female hypersexuality
• nosomania, one's own suffering of disease
• 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
• parousiamania, The second coming of Christ
• pathomania, moral insanity
• pyromania, fire or starting fires
• theomania, belief that one is God or chosen by God for a specific mission.
• trichotillomania, hair removal
• titillomaniac, scratching
• timbromania, stamp collecting

Other

• Tulipomania, a metaphor for an economic bubble
• Fennomania and Svecomania, political groups in the Grand Duchy of Finland
• Beatlemania, the Beatles
• dinomania, growing popular interest in dinosaurs [alternate psychological definition: - dancing obsession]
• Trudeaumania, the Canadian politician Pierre Trudeau
• Pottermania, Harry Potter
• TrackMania, an arcade game
• WrestleMania, the annual flagship pay-per-view event of World Wrestling Entertainment
• Tazmania, An early 1990s cartoon show, featuring Looney Tunes character Taz (The Tasmanian Devil).
• Decalcomania, transferring pictures, an artistic technique