-mania
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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.
Mental illnesses or obsessions with different subjects include:
[edit] Psychological conditions
- arithmomania, counting
- bibliomania, collecting books
- dermatillomania, picking at the skin
- dipsomania, alcohol
- drapetomania, fleeing from slavery
- erotomania, being loved by someone else
- hypomania, general mania, a symptom of manic-depression
- islomania, islands
- kleptomania, stealing
- ludomania, gambling
- megalomania, wealth and power
- monomania, a single object, type of object, or concept.
- mythomania, lying
- nymphomania, having sex (women)
- pyromania, fire or starting fires
- theomania, belief that one is God or chosen by God for a specific mission.
- trichotillomania, hair removal
- pocyalmania, knives
[edit] Non-psychological conditions
- decalcomania, transferring pictures, an artistic technique
[edit] Joke and fictional manias
- beatlemania, the Beatles
- Hulkamania, World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) wrestler Hulk Hogan's Catchphrase
- pottermania, Harry Potter
- Pokemania, Relating to the popular childrens cartoon Pokemon (Pocket Monsters)
- Trudeaumania, the Canadian politician Pierre Trudeau
- Tutmania, the craze that happened in the 1980's over the discovery of Pharoh Tutankhamen.
- tulipomania, a metaphor for an economic bubble
- WrestleMania, the annual flagship pay-per-view event of World Wrestling Entertainment
