Manias and Obsessions

Manias and Obsessions
Sometimes, when I look over what I've created in the Phrontistery, I start to think I'm more than a bit crazy, and must be suffering from verbomania. Still, I probably don't officially 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 love and attraction or 'philias', some of which indicate pathological attractions.
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Phrontistery dictionary. 2013.

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  • anglomania — craze or obsession with England and the English Manias and Obsessions …   Phrontistery dictionary

  • francomania — craze or obsession with France and the French Manias and Obsessions …   Phrontistery dictionary

  • gallomania — craze or obsession with France and the French Manias and Obsessions …   Phrontistery dictionary

  • Graecomania — obsession with Greece and the Greeks Manias and Obsessions …   Phrontistery dictionary

  • Hellenomania — obsession with Greece and the Greeks; Graecomania Manias and Obsessions …   Phrontistery dictionary

  • planomania — abnormal desire to wander and disobey social norms Manias and Obsessions …   Phrontistery dictionary

  • thanatomania — belief that one has been affected by death magic, and resulting illness Manias and Obsessions …   Phrontistery dictionary

  • ablutomania — mania for washing oneself Manias and Obsessions …   Phrontistery dictionary

  • aboulomania — pathological indecisiveness Manias and Obsessions …   Phrontistery dictionary

  • agromania — intense desire to be in open spaces Manias and Obsessions …   Phrontistery dictionary

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