Noun: mania
| Singular | mania |
| Plural | manias |
Sample Sentences
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One of the manias of the present day, which especially excites my spleen, is the locomotive rage which seems to possess all ranks—that necessity of going out of town in the summer... [1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIX, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 233:]
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Dotcom mania was slow in coming to higher education, but now it has the venerable industry firmly in its grip. Since the launch early last year of Udacity and Coursera, two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. [2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845, archived from the original on 17 Jul 2020:]
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The eugenics mania that swept the country in the late 19th and early 20th centuries led to forced sterilizations and the passage of laws in 27 states designed to limit the numbers of those considered genetically unfit: immigrants, Jews, African-Americans, the mentally ill and those deemed “morally delinquent.” [2018 October 16, John Blake, “When Americans tried to breed a better race: How a genetic fitness ‘crusade’ marches on”, in CNN:]
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[2004 March, G. E. Berrios, “Of Mania: introduction (Classic text no. 57)”, in History of Psychiatry, number 15, →DOI, →PMID, pages 105–124:]
Nouns inflected like mania
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *men-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
4. Proto-Indo-European *mn̥yétorder.
5. Proto-Hellenic *məňňómai
6. Ancient Greek μαίνομαι (maínomai)
7. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
8. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
9. Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
10. Proto-Hellenic *-íā
11. Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ f (-ĭ́ā)
12. Ancient Greek μᾰνῐ́ᾱ (mănĭ́ā)der.
13. Latin maniabor.
14. English mania
15. Borrowed from Latin mania, from Ancient Greek μανία (manía, “madness”). See: Latin Nouns '
mania', Ancient Greek Nouns '
μανία'.