Noun mania has 2 senses
  1. 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
  2. mania, manic disorder - a mood disorder; an affective disorder in which the victim tends to respond excessively and sometimes violently
    --2 is a kind of affective disorder, major affective disorder, emotional disorder, emotional disturbance
    --2 has particulars: craze, delirium, frenzy, fury, hysteria
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