- mania, passion, cacoethes - an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action
--1 is a kind of irrational motive
--1 has particulars:agromania; dipsomania, alcoholism, potomania; egomania; kleptomania; logorrhea, logomania; monomania, possession; necrophilia, necrophilism, necromania; phaneromania; pyromania; trichotillomania