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CAPACITY FOR LOVE: A look at love, affection, and sex and all that is wrapped up in relationships.
​WordMap: Love and Romance
  • ​The Greek Definition of Love
  • In English it’s Sexy, In French it’s Séduisant
  • ​Where do Broken Hearts Go?
  • No Emoji Poetry. Try Seductive and Sensual
  • How We Can Express Attraction and Love
  • Words of Love for Your Writing
  • ​Untranslatable Words for Love - words of the world with no English equivalent
​A ​SUFFIX LOVE SONG
  • The Phile Words - Affection
  • The Mania Words - Obsession
  • The Phobia Words - Dislike or Fear​

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Defining Love With the Romance of French

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A Tantalizing Quiver of Attraction
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SECRETS OF THE HEART

Defining and Understanding the Meaning of Attraction, Lust, Affection, Love, Sex
​Love. We think about it, sing about it, dream about it, worry about it. When we don’t have it, we search for it; when we discover it, we don’t know what to do with it; and when we have it, we fear losing it. How to define it? Do we understand it?
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THE MANIA WORDS
​Obsessions and Compulsions


A SUFFIX LOVE SONG
The Phile Words - Defining Affection
The Mania Words - Defining Obsession
The Phobia Words - Defining Dislike
Mania is a state of abnormally elevated arousal, affect, and energy level. The word derives from the Ancient Greek μανία (manía), meaning “madness, frenzy" and the verb μαίνομαι (maínomai), meaning "to be mad, to rage, to be furious".

The English suffix -mania denotes an obsession with something or a compulsion for something. The suffix is used in some medical terms denoting mental disorders. It has also entered standard English and is affixed to many different words to denote enthusiasm or obsession with that subject. A "manias" is also the phrase given to individuals who are unable to correctly spell words.

Mania as a fad, craze, enthusiasm, eagerness or uncontrollable desire stems from the 1680s French manie (sometimes nativized in Middle English as manye). Used since the 1500s in compounds expressing particular types of madness (such as nymphomania, 1775; kleptomania, 1830; megalomania, 1890).

A MANIA OF WORDS

ACRONYMANIA - obsession with acronyms

AGROMANIA - intense desire to be in open spaces

ANTHOMANIA - obsession with flowers

ARITHMOMANIA - obsessive preoccupation with numbers

BIBLIOKLEPTOMANIA - compulsion for stealing books

BIBLIOMANIA - craze for books or reading

BLOGOMANIA - obsession with blogs and writing them

CACOSPECTOMANIA - compulsion to stare at repulsive things

CALLOMANIA - obsession for one's own beauty

CATAPEDAMANIA - obsession with jumping from high places

CHOREOMANIA - dancing mania or frenzy

CLINOMANIA - excessive desire to stay in bed

DINOMANIA - mania for dancing

DISCOMANIA - obsession for disco music

DISHABILIOMANIA - obsession for undressing in front of someone

DOROMANIA - obsession with giving gifts

DRAPETOMANIA - intense desire to run away from home

DROMOMANIA - compulsive longing for travel

ELEUTHEROMANIA - an intense and irresistible desire for freedom

ENTHEOMANIA - abnormal belief that one is divinely inspired

EPISTEMOMANIA - obsession with knowledge

EPOMANIA - craze for writing epics

EREMIOMANIA - obsession for stillness and solitude

ERGASIOMANIA - excessive desire to work

EROTOMANIA - abnormally powerful sex drive

GAMOMANIA - obsession with issuing odd marriage proposals

GENOMANIA - obsession for sex

GLOSSOMANIA - obsession for language or speaking

GRAPHOMANIA - obsession with writing

HABROMANIA - insanity featuring cheerful delusions

HELLENOLOGOMANIA - obsession with Greek words or scientific terms

HIEROMANIA - pathological religious visions or delusions

HIPPOPOTOMONSTROSESQUIPEDALIOMANIA - excessive and persistent use of long words

HEXAMETROMANIA - mania for writing in hexameter

INFOMANIA - excessive devotion to accumulating facts

KAINOMANIA - obsession for novelty, innovation

KAINOTOMANIA - obsession with change

KAKORRHAPHIOMANIA - obsession with failure or defeat

KATAGELOMANIA - obsession with ridicule

KLAZOMANIA – obsession with screaming

LOGOMANIA – being wordy and talkative i.e. loquacity

LYGOMANIA - obsession for the darkness

LYPEMANIA - extreme pathological mournfulness

MEGALOMANIA - abnormal tendency towards grand or grandiose behavior

MELOMANIA - craze for music

METROMANIA - obsession with poetry

MYTHOMANIA - obsession with myths

NOSTOMANIA - abnormal desire to go back to familiar places

NYMPHOMANIA - excessive or crazed sexual desire

OENOMANIA - obsession or craze for wine

OLIGOMANIA - obsession with a few thoughts or ideas

ONIOMANIA - excessive desire to shop

ONOMATOMANIA - irresistible desire to repeat certain words

ONOMAMANIA - obsession with names

ONOMATOMANIA - obsession with word repetition

PHILEMATOMANIA - obsession with kissing

PHILOMANIA - obsession for kindness.

PLANOMANIA - abnormal desire to wander and disobey social norms

PLUTOMANIA - mania for money

POLKAMANIA - craze for polka dancing

SCRIBBLEOMANIA - obsession with scribbling

SEBASTOMANIA - religious mania

SESQUIPEDALOMANIA - obsession for long words

SOPHOMANIA - delusion that one is incredibly intelligent

SYMBOLOMANIA - obsession with symbolism

THANATOMANIA - obsession with death or dying

THEATROMANIA - craze for going to plays

THEOMANIA - belief that one is a god

TYPOMANIA – obsession with printing one's own works

URANOMANIA - obsession with the idea of divinity

VERBOMANIA - craze for words

XENOGLOSSOMANIA - obsession with foreign languages

ZOOMANIA - insane fondness for animals

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CAPACITY FOR LOVE: A look at love, affection, and sex and all that is wrapped up in relationships.
​WordMap: Love and Romance
  • ​The Greek Definition of Love
  • In English it’s Sexy, In French it’s Séduisant
  • ​Where do Broken Hearts Go?
  • No Emoji Poetry. Try Seductive and Sensual
  • How We Can Express Attraction and Love
  • Words of Love for Your Writing​
  • Untranslatable Words for Love - words of the world with no English equivalent ​
​A SUFFIX LOVE SONG
  • The Phile Words - Defining Affection
  • The Mania Words - Defining Obsession
  • The Phobia Words - Defining Dislike
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  • Beautifully Obscure Words
    • Tracing the Etymology of a Word
    • Typing the Typeface of Writing Types
    • WORD LIST: Feelings and Emotions >
      • FEATURE: Our Capacity for Love
    • FEATURED WORD LIST COLLECTIONS
    • BEAUTIFUL WORD LISTS
    • WORD LIST: Translating Your World >
      • Index of Untranslatable Words (Alphabetical)
  • WORD LIST: Rolling Log of Beautiful Words
  • WORD LIST: The Languages From Around the World
    • FEATURE: Words of the World >
      • DEFINING LOVE with a French Romance >
        • Fantastic Flair of Everyday French - Nature
  • IT’S ABOUT TIME! Website Housekeeping
    • FULL SITE INDEX - SITEMAP - All the Beautiful Words
    • A SERIES OF BEAUTIFUL WORDS - My Vocabulary Books and Blogs >
      • Download - The Logophile Lexicon - Words About Words
  • WORD LIST: People, Places and Things
    • To Sleep Perchance to Dream
  • WRITING SYSTEMS