Mania = Excessive love or liking for someone/something.
The following are the words for different kinds of Manias:
- Dipsomania – Excessive liking/love for Alcohol
- Kleptomania – Irresistible wish to steal
- Bibliomania – Excessive liking for Books
- Ailuromania – Excessive love for Cats
- Cynomania – Excessive love for Dogs.
- Ochlomania – Excessive love for Crowds
- Phagomania – Excessive love for eating
- Pyromania – Excessive love of Fire
- Anthomania – Excessive love of Flowers
- Mythomania – Excessive liking for telling lies
- Ablutomania – Craving for personal cleanliness
- Hedonomania – Craving for sensual/material pleasure
- Plutomania – Excessive love for Money
- Megalomania – Excessive love for Power
- Theomania – Excessive love of God/Religion
- Necromania – Excessive love of Dead bodies
- Gamomania – Excessive love of Marriage/Wedding
- Neomania – Excessive liking for Change/Newness
- Andromania – Excessive love of males
- Gynomania – Excessive love of females
- Francomania – Excessive love for France and French things
- Anglomania – Excessive love for England and English things
- Nymphomania – Excessive craving for Sex (Excessive craving for men or sex with men is called “Androphilia”)
- Gymnomania – Excessive craving for Nakedness
- Ergomania – Excessive love for Work
- Dromomania – Excessive love for Travelling
- Lactomania – Excessive love for Milk
- Ichthyomania – Excessive love for Fish
- Monomania (or) Automania – Excessive love to be alone, aloof, or lonely
- Egomania – Obsession with Self
© 2008. Compiled by P. Mohan Chandran. All Rights Reserved.