The meaning of Mania

noun

An acutely disturbed state of mind characterized by restlessness, illusions, and incoherence, occurring in intoxication, fever, and other disorders.

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Somewhere a patient shouted in delirium

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A state of being unable to think or speak clearly because of fever or mental confusion

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Fever accompanied by delirium, i've never seen such delirium at a football game before.

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A chronic or persistent disorder of the mental processes caused by brain disease or injury and marked by memory disorders, personality changes, and impaired reasoning.

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The state of being completely unable to think clearly or behave in a controlled way, especially because of mental illness

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She had a history of mental derangement, he returned from the war in a state of furious derangement.

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A state or period of uncontrolled excitement or wild behaviour.

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Doreen worked herself into a frenzy of rage

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Excited, uncontrollable, and sometimes violent behavior or emotion

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[ c usually sing ] duncan’s game-winning shot sent the crowd into a frenzy., [ c usually sing ] the…

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Exaggerated or uncontrollable emotion or excitement.

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The anti-semitic hysteria of the 1890s

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Excitement or emotion that is uncontrollable

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One woman, close to hysteria, grabbed my arm.

noun

The state of being seriously mentally ill; madness.

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He suffered from bouts of insanity

noun

Mental illness

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The jury found him innocent on the grounds of temporary insanity.

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The state of being a lunatic; insanity (not in technical use).

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It has been suggested that originality demands a degree of lunacy

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Extreme foolishness or mental illness

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It would be lunacy to try and climb the mountain in this weather.

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The state of having a serious mental illness.

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In his madness he destroyed the work of years

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Mental illness

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There was a history of madness in her family., it would be sheer madness (= crazy) to ignore the sy…

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A severe mental disorder in which thought and emotions are so impaired that contact is lost with external reality.

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They were suffering from a psychosis

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A severe mental illness

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Psychotic delusions

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Irrational or incoherent talk.

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The ravings of a madwoman

adjective

Used to emphasize a particular quality.

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She'd never been a raving beauty

verb

Talk incoherently, as if one were delirious or mad.

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Nancy's having hysterics and raving about a ghost

noun

A long-term mental disorder of a type involving a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behaviour, leading to faulty perception, inappropriate actions and feelings, withdrawal from reality and personal relationships into fantasy and delusion, and a sense of mental fragmentation.

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The appellant suffers from paranoid schizophrenia which is a mental illness within the meaning of t…

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Behaviour involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something.

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Violence erupted in protest marches

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Extremely forceful actions that are intended to hurt people or are likely to cause damage

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Racial/ethnic/domestic violence, she was concerned about the amount of violence on television., the…

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The character of being uncultivated, undomesticated, or inhospitable.

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The wildness and beauty of the scottish hills

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The quality of being uncontrolled, violent, or extreme

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They are no longer able to claim the wildness of youth as any excuse for their behaviour., there wa…