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Still, I probably don't <i>officially</i> have any of the 142 manias or obsessions listed below. Some of these mania words represent clinical illnesses, while others are merely facetious. They show the range of unusual and weird things with which one can become obsessed. These words are the ones found in major dictionaries; no doubt there are many others, given that, like phobias, manias are easy to form by taking a root word from Latin or Greek and affixing the suffix 'mania'. Also my word list of types of <a href="love.html">love and attraction</a> or 'philias', some of which indicate pathological attractions.</p> <br> <div align="center">   </div> <table class="words"> <col width="25%"> <TR> <th> Word <th> Definition <tr> <td>ablutomania <td>mania for washing oneself <tr> <td>aboulomania <td>pathological indecisiveness <tr> <td>agromania <td>intense desire to be in open spaces <tr> <td>andromania <td>nymphomania <tr> <td>anglomania <td>craze or obsession with England and the English <tr> <td>anthomania <td>obsession with flowers <tr> <td>aphrodisiomania <td>abnormal sexual interest <tr> <td>arithmomania <td>obsessive preoccupation with numbers <tr> <td>balletomania <td>abnormal fondness for ballet <tr> <td>bibliomania <td>craze for books or reading <tr> <td>bruxomania <td>compulsion for grinding teeth <tr> <td>cacodemomania <td>pathological belief that one is inhabited by an evil spirit <tr> <td>catapedamania <td>obsession with jumping from high places <tr> <td>chinamania <td>obsession with collecting china <tr> <td>choreomania <td>dancing mania or frenzy <tr> <td>clinomania <td>excessive desire to stay in bed <tr> <td>copromania <td>obsession with feces <tr> <td>cytheromania <td>nymphomania <tr> <td>dacnomania <td>obsession with killing <tr> <td>demonomania <td>pathological belief that one is possessed by demons <tr> <td>dinomania <td>mania for dancing <tr> <td>dipsomania <td>abnormal craving for alcohol <tr> <td>discomania <td>obsession for disco music <tr> <td>doramania <td>obsession with owning furs <tr> <td>doromania <td>obsession with giving gifts <tr> <td>drapetomania <td>intense desire to run away from home <tr> <td>dromomania <td>compulsive longing for travel <tr> <td>ecdemomania <td>abnormal compulsion for wandering <tr> <td>egomania <td>irrational self-centered attitude or self-worship <tr> <td>eleutheromania <td>manic desire for freedom <tr> <td>empleomania <td>mania for holding public office <tr> <td>enosimania <td>pathological belief that one has sinned <tr> <td>entheomania <td>abnormal belief that one is divinely inspired <tr> <td>epomania <td>craze for writing epics <tr> <td>ergasiomania <td>excessive desire to work; ergomania <tr> <td>ergomania <td>excessive desire to work; workaholism <tr> <td>erotomania <td>abnormally powerful sex drive <tr> <td>etheromania <td>craving for ether <tr> <td>ethnomania <td>obsessive devotion to one's own people <tr> <td>eulogomania <td>obsessive craze for eulogies <tr> <td>flagellomania <td>abnormal enthusiasm for flogging <tr> <td>florimania <td>craze for flowers <tr> <td>francomania <td>craze or obsession with France and the French <tr> <td>gallomania <td>craze or obsession with France and the French <tr> <td>gamomania <td>obsession with issuing odd marriage proposals <tr> <td>Graecomania <td>obsession with Greece and the Greeks <tr> <td>graphomania <td>obsession with writing <tr> <td>gynaecomania <td>abnormal sexual obsession with women <tr> <td>habromania <td>insanity featuring cheerful delusions <tr> <td>hagiomania <td>mania for sainthood <tr> <td>Hellenomania <td>obsession with Greece and the Greeks; Graecomania <tr> <td>hexametromania <td>mania for writing in hexameter <tr> <td>hieromania <td>pathological religious visions or delusions <tr> <td>hippomania <td>obsession with horses <tr> <td>hydromania <td>irrational craving for water <tr> <td>hylomania <td>excessive tendency towards materialism <tr> <td>hypermania <td>severe mania <tr> <td>hypomania <td>minor mania <tr> <td>hysteromania <td>nymphomania <tr> <td>iconomania <td>obsession with icons or portraits <tr> <td>idolomania <td>obsession or devotion to idols <tr> <td>infomania <td>excessive devotion to accumulating facts <tr> <td>islomania <td>craze or obsession for islands <tr> <td>Italomania <td>obsession with Italy or Italians <tr> <td>kleptomania <td>irrational predilection for stealing <tr> <td>klopemania <td>kleptomania <tr> <td>logomania <td>pathological loquacity <tr> <td>lypemania <td>extreme pathological mournfulness <tr> <td>macromania <td>delusion that objects are larger than natural size <tr> <td>megalomania <td>abnormal tendency towards grand or grandiose behaviour <tr> <td>melomania <td>craze for music <tr> <td>methomania <td>morbid craving for alcohol <tr> <td>metromania <td>insatiable desire for writing verse <tr> <td>micromania <td>pathological self-deprecation or belief that one is very small <tr> <td>monomania <td>abnormal obsession with a single thought or idea <tr> <td>morphinomania <td>habitual craving or desire for morphine <tr> <td>musomania <td>obsession with music <tr> <td>mythomania <td>lying or exaggerating to an abnormal extent <tr> <td>narcomania <td>uncontrollable craving for narcotics <tr> <td>necromania <td>sexual obsession with dead bodies; necrophilia <tr> <td>nosomania <td>delusion of suffering from a disease <tr> <td>nostomania <td>abnormal desire to go back to familiar places <tr> <td>nymphomania <td>excessive or crazed sexual desire <tr> <td>oenomania <td>obsession or craze for wine <tr> <td>oligomania <td>obsession with a few thoughts or ideas <tr> <td>oniomania <td>mania for making purchases <tr> <td>onomamania <td>mania for names <tr> <td>onomatomania <td>irresistible desire to repeat certain words <tr> <td>onychotillomania <td>compulsive picking at the fingernails <tr> <td>opiomania <td>craving for opium <tr> <td>opsomania <td>abnormal love for one kind of food <tr> <td>orchidomania <td>abnormal obsession with orchids <tr> <td>parousiamania <td>obsession with the second coming of Christ <tr> <td>pathomania <td>moral insanity <tr> <td>peotillomania <td>abnormal compulsion for pulling on the penis <tr> <td>phagomania <td>excessive desire for food or eating <tr> <td>phaneromania <td>habit of biting one抯 nails <tr> <td>pharmacomania <td>abnormal obsession with trying drugs <tr> <td>phonomania <td>pathological tendency to murder <tr> <td>photomania <td>pathological desire for light <tr> <td>phyllomania <td>excessive or abnormal production of leaves <tr> <td>phytomania <td>obsession with collecting plants <tr> <td>planomania <td>abnormal desire to wander and disobey social norms <tr> <td>plutomania <td>mania for money <tr> <td>polemomania <td>mania for war <tr> <td>politicomania <td>mania for politics <tr> <td>polkamania <td>craze for polka dancing <tr> <td>polymania <td>mania affecting several different mental faculties <tr> <td>poriomania <td>abnormal compulsion to wander <tr> <td>pornomania <td>obsession with pornography <tr> <td>potichomania <td>craze for imitating Oriental porcelain <tr> <td>potomania <td>abnormal desire to drink alcohol <tr> <td>pseudomania <td>irrational predilection for lying <tr> <td>pteridomania <td>passion for ferns <tr> <td>pyromania <td>craze for starting fires <tr> <td>rhinotillexomania <td>compulsive nose picking <tr> <td>rinkomania <td>obsession with skating <tr> <td>satyromania <td>abnormally great male sexual desire; satyriasis <tr> <td>scribbleomania <td>obsession with scribbling <tr> <td>sebastomania <td>religious insanity <tr> <td>sitiomania <td>morbid aversion to food <tr> <td>sophomania <td>delusion that one is incredibly intelligent <tr> <td>squandermania <td>irrational propensity for spending money wastefully <tr> <td>stampomania <td>obsession with stamp-collecting <tr> <td>syphilomania <td>pathological belief that one is afflicted with syphilis <tr> <td>technomania <td>craze for technology <tr> <td>Teutomania <td>obsession with Teutonic or German things <tr> <td>thanatomania <td>belief that one has been affected by death magic, and resulting illness <tr> <td>theatromania <td>craze for going to plays <tr> <td>theomania <td>belief that one is a god <tr> <td>timbromania <td>craze for stamp collecting <tr> <td>tomomania <td>irrational predilection for performing surgery <tr> <td>toxicomania <td>morbid craving for poisons <tr> <td>trichotillomania <td>neurosis where patient pulls out own hair <tr> <td>tulipomania <td>obsession with tulips <tr> <td>typhomania <td>delirious state resulting from typhus fever <tr> <td>typomania <td>craze for printing one抯 lucubrations <tr> <td>uranomania <td>obsession with the idea of divinity <tr> <td>verbomania <td>craze for words <tr> <td>xenomania <td>inordinate attachment to foreign things <tr> <td>zoomania <td>insane fondness for animals </table> <br> <br> <p>I hope you have found this site to be useful. 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