Mania

//ˈmeɪ.ni.ə//

"Mania" in a Sentence (13 examples)

He has mania for sports cars.

I don't understand all the soccer mania.

The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance... logic can be happily tossed out the window.

Mennad had full-blown mania.

He could not shake off the persecution mania.

This is pure and sterile mania of protagonism for its own sake.

Mania can bring hidden prejudices to the surface, but it doesn't create them out of whole cloth.

Persecution mania plagues him, causing persistent feelings of being targeted and unjustly treated.

His persecution mania leads to constant paranoia, making it difficult for him to trust others.

The symptoms of his persecution mania include delusions of conspiracy and exaggerated fears.

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One of the manias of the present day, which especially excites my spleen, is the locomotive rage which seems to possess all ranks—that necessity of going out of town in the summer...

Dotcom mania was slow in coming to higher education, but now it has the venerable industry firmly in its grip. Since the launch early last year of Udacity and Coursera, two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations.

The eugenics mania that swept the country in the late 19th and early 20th centuries led to forced sterilizations and the passage of laws in 27 states designed to limit the numbers of those considered genetically unfit: immigrants, Jews, African-Americans, the mentally ill and those deemed “morally delinquent.”

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