Word Meanings - MANIA - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity. Cf. Delirium. 2. Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; as, the tulip mania. Mania a potu Etym: , madness from drinking; delirium tremens. Syn. -- Insanity;
Additional info about word: MANIA
1. Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity. Cf. Delirium. 2. Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; as, the tulip mania. Mania a potu Etym: , madness from drinking; delirium tremens. Syn. -- Insanity; derangement; madness; lunacy; alienation; aberration; delirium; frenzy. See Insanity.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MANIA)
- Lunacy
- Madness
- Insanity
- derangement
- craziness
- mania
- aberration
- hallucination
- Phrensy
- insanity
- delirium
- raving
- afflatus
- inspiration
- Rage
- Fury
- rabidity
- choler
- indignation
- frenzy
- auger
- ire
- dudgeon
- passion
- madness
- ferocity
Related words: (words related to MANIA)
- INDIGNATION
1. The feeling excited by that which is unworthy, base, or disgraceful; anger mingled with contempt, disgust, or abhorrence. Shak. Indignation expresses a strong and elevated disapprobation of mind, which is also inspired by something flagitious - MANIAC
Raving with madness; raging with disordered intellect; affected with mania; mad. - RAVENER
1. One who, or that which, ravens or plunders. Gower. 2. A bird of prey, as the owl or vulture. Holland. - RAVISHER
One who ravishes . - DERANGEMENT
The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity. Syn. -- Disorder; confusion; embarrassment; irregularity; disturbance; insanity; - RAVENOUS
1. Devouring with rapacious eagerness; furiously voracious; hungry even to rage; as, a ravenous wolf or vulture. 2. Eager for prey or gratification; as, a ravenous appetite or desire. -- Rav"en*ous*ly, adv. -- Rav"en*ous*ness, n. - RAVELIN
A detached work with two embankments with make a salient angle. It is raised before the curtain on the counterscarp of the place. Formerly called demilune and half-moon. - AUGER
nave of a wheel + gar spear, and therefore meaning properly and 1. A carpenter's tool for boring holes larger than those bored by a gimlet. It has a handle placed crosswise by which it is turned with both hands. A pod auger is one with a straight - FEROCITY
Savage wildness or fierceness; fury; cruelty; as, ferocity of countenance. The pride and ferocity of a Highland chief. Macaulay. - RAVEN
A large black passerine bird , similar to the crow, but larger. It is native of the northern part of Europe, Asia and America, and is noted for its sagacity. Sea raven , the cormorant. (more info) Icel. hrafn, Dan. ravn, and perhaps to L. corvus, - RAVENING
Eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion. Luke xi. 39. - PASSIONAL
Of or pertaining to passion or the passions; exciting, influenced by, or ministering to, the passions. -- n. - ABERRATION
A small periodical change of position in the stars and other heavenly bodies, due to the combined effect of the motion of light and the motion of the observer; called annual aberration, when the observer's motion is that of the earth in its orbit, - RAVISHING
Rapturous; transporting. - RAVAGER
One who, or that which, ravages or lays waste; spoiler. - RAVAGE
Desolation by violence; violent ruin or destruction; devastation; havoc; waste; as, the ravage of a lion; the ravages of fire or tempest; the ravages of an army, or of time. Would one think 't were possible for love To make such ravage in a noble - MANIABLE
Manageable. Bacon. - RAVER
One who raves. - RAVENALA
A genus of plants related to the banana. Note: Ravenala Madagascariensis, the principal species, is an unbranched tree with immense oarlike leaves growing alternately from two sides of the stem. The sheathing bases of the leafstalks collect and - RAVELER
One who ravels. - PARAVAIL
At the bottom; lowest. Cowell. Note: In feudal law, the tenant paravail is the lowest tenant of the fee, or he who is immediate tenant to one who holds over of another. Wharton. - GRAVIDATION
Gravidity. - MORAVIAN
Of or pertaining to Moravia, or to the United Brethren. See Moravian, n. - GRAVES
The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves. - COMPASSIONATELY
In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon. - MARGRAVATE; MARGRAVIATE
The territory or jurisdiction of a margrave. - GRAVEDIGGER
See T (more info) 1. A digger of graves. - TRAVEL
1. To labor; to travail. Hooker. 2. To go or march on foot; to walk; as, to travel over the city, or through the streets. 3. To pass by riding, or in any manner, to a distant place, or to many places; to journey; as, a man travels for his health; - MEGALOMANIA
A form of mental alienation in which the patient has grandiose delusions. - SAUGER
An American fresh-water food fish ; -- called also gray pike, blue pike, hornfish, land pike, sand pike, pickering, and pickerel. - NYMPHOMANIA
Morbid and uncontrollable sexual desire in women, constituting a true disease.