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Word Definition ablutomania mania for washing oneself aboulomania pathological indecisiveness agromania intense desire to be in open spaces

andromania nymphomania anglomania craze or obsession with England and the English anthomania obsession with flowers aphrodisioman abnormal sexual interest ia arithmomania obsessive preoccupation with numbers balletomania abnormal fondness for ballet bibliomania craze for books or reading bruxomania compulsion for grinding teeth cacodemomani pathological belief that one is inhabited by an evil a spirit catapedamani obsession with jumping from high places a chinamania obsession with collecting china choreomania dancing mania or frenzy clinomania excessive desire to stay in bed copromania obsession with feces cytheromania nymphomania dacnomania obsession with killing pathological belief that one is possessed by demonomania demons dinomania mania for dancing dipsomania abnormal craving for alcohol discomania obsession for disco music doramania obsession with owning furs doromania obsession with giving gifts drapetomania intense desire to run away from home dromomania compulsive longing for travel ecdemomania abnormal compulsion for wandering egomania irrational self-centered attitude or self-worship eleutheromani manic desire for freedom a empleomania mania for holding public office enosimania pathological belief that one has sinned entheomania abnormal belief that one is divinely inspired epomania craze for writing epics ergasiomania excessive desire to work; ergomania ergomania excessive desire to work; workaholism erotomania abnormally powerful sex drive etheromania craving for ether ethnomania obsessive devotion to one's own people

eulogomania flagellomania florimania francomania gallomania gamomania Graecomania graphomania gynaecomania habromania hagiomania

obsessive craze for eulogies abnormal enthusiasm for flogging craze for flowers craze or obsession with France and the French craze or obsession with France and the French obsession with issuing odd marriage proposals obsession with Greece and the Greeks obsession with writing abnormal sexual obsession with women insanity featuring cheerful delusions mania for sainthood obsession with Greece and the Greeks; Hellenomania Graecomania hexametroman mania for writing in hexameter ia hieromania pathological religious visions or delusions hippomania obsession with horses hydromania irrational craving for water hylomania excessive tendency towards materialism hypermania severe mania hypomania minor mania hysteromania nymphomania iconomania obsession with icons or portraits idolomania obsession or devotion to idols infomania excessive devotion to accumulating facts islomania craze or obsession for islands Italomania obsession with Italy or Italians kleptomania irrational predilection for stealing klopemania kleptomania logomania pathological loquacity lypemania extreme pathological mournfulness macromania delusion that objects are larger than natural size abnormal tendency towards grand or grandiose megalomania behaviour melomania craze for music methomania morbid craving for alcohol metromania insatiable desire for writing verse pathological self-deprecation or belief that one is micromania very small monomania abnormal obsession with a single thought or idea morphinomani habitual craving or desire for morphine a musomania obsession with music mythomania lying or exaggerating to an abnormal extent narcomania uncontrollable craving for narcotics

necromania sexual obsession with dead bodies; necrophilia nosomania delusion of suffering from a disease 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 mania for making purchases onomamania mania for names onomatomania irresistible desire to repeat certain words onychotilloman compulsive picking at the fingernails ia opiomania craving for opium opsomania abnormal love for one kind of food orchidomania abnormal obsession with orchids parousiamania obsession with the second coming of Christ pathomania moral insanity peotillomania abnormal compulsion for pulling on the penis phagomania excessive desire for food or eating phaneromania habit of biting ones nails pharmacomani abnormal obsession with trying drugs a phonomania pathological tendency to murder photomania pathological desire for light phyllomania excessive or abnormal production of leaves phytomania obsession with collecting plants abnormal desire to wander and disobey social planomania norms plutomania mania for money polemomania mania for war politicomania mania for politics polkamania craze for polka dancing polymania mania affecting several different mental faculties poriomania abnormal compulsion to wander pornomania obsession with pornography potichomania craze for imitating Oriental porcelain potomania abnormal desire to drink alcohol pseudomania irrational predilection for lying pteridomania passion for ferns pyromania craze for starting fires rhinotillexoma compulsive nose picking nia rinkomania obsession with skating satyromania abnormally great male sexual desire; satyriasis scribbleomania obsession with scribbling sebastomania religious insanity

sitiomania sophomania squandermani a stampomania

morbid aversion to food delusion that one is incredibly intelligent irrational propensity for spending money wastefully obsession with stamp-collecting pathological belief that one is afflicted with syphilomania syphilis technomania craze for technology Teutomania obsession with Teutonic or German things belief that one has been affected by death magic, thanatomania and resulting illness theatromania craze for going to plays theomania belief that one is a god timbromania craze for stamp collecting tomomania irrational predilection for performing surgery toxicomania morbid craving for poisons trichotillomani neurosis where patient pulls out own hair a tulipomania obsession with tulips typhomania delirious state resulting from typhus fever typomania craze for printing ones lucubrations uranomania obsession with the idea of divinity verbomania craze for words xenomania inordinate attachment to foreign things zoomania insane fondness for animals

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