mania

1. An irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action (synset 109204454)
   is a type of: irrational motive - a motivation that is inconsistent with reason or logic
   subtypes:

   • agromania - an intense desire to be alone or out in the open
   • alcoholism, dipsomania, potomania - an intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess
   • egomania - an intense and irresistible love for yourself and concern for your own needs
   • kleptomania - an irresistible impulse to steal in the absence of any economic motive
   • logomania, logorrhea - pathologically excessive (and often incoherent) talking
   • monomania, possession - a mania restricted to one thing or idea
   • necromania, necrophilia, necrophilism - an irresistible sexual attraction to dead bodies
   • phaneromania - an irresistible desire to pick at superficial body parts (as in obsessive nail-biting)
   • pyromania - an uncontrollable desire to set fire to things
   • trichotillomania - an irresistible urge to pull out your own hair
   same as: cacoethes, passion
2. A mood disorder;
   An affective disorder in which the victim tends to respond excessively and sometimes violently (synset 114415065)
   is a type of: affective disorder, emotional disorder, emotional disturbance, major affective disorder - any mental disorder not caused by detectable organic abnormalities of the brain and in which a major disturbance of emotions is predominant
   subtypes: craze, delirium, frenzy, fury, hysteria - state of violent mental agitation
   same as: manic disorder

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