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Manias and Obsessions

These words are the ones found in major dictionaries; no doubt there are many others, given that,
like phobias, manias are easy to from by taking a root word from Latin or Greek and affixing the
suffix mania.
Word
Ablutomanina
Aboulomania
Agromanina
Andromanina
Anglomania
Anthomania
Aphrodisiomania
Arithmomania
Balletomania
Bruxomania
Cacodemomania
Catapedamania
Chinamania
Choreomania
Clinomania
Copromania
Cytheromania
Dacnomania
Demonomania
Dinomania
Dipsomania
Discomania
Doramania
Doromania
Drapetomania
Dromomania
Ecdemomania
Egomania
Eeleutheromania
Empleomania
Enosimania
Engheomania
Epoania
Ergasiomania
Ergomania
Erotomania
Etheromania
Ethomania
Eulogomania
Florimania
Francomania
Gallomania
Gamomania

Definition
Mania for washing oneself
Pathological indecisiveness
Intense desire to be in open spaces
An obsession with men
Craze or obsession with England and the English
Obsession with flowers
Abnormal sexual interest
Obsessive preoccupation with numbers
Craze for books or reading
Compulsion for grinding teeth
Pathological belief that one is inhabited by an evil spirit
Obsession with jumping from high places
Obsession with collecting china
Dancing mania or frenzy
Excessive desire to stay in bed
Obsession with feces
Nymphomania
Obsession with killing
Pathological belief that one is possessed demons
Mania for dancing
Abnormal craving for alcohol
Obsession for disco music
Obsession with owning furs
Obsession with giving gifts
Intense desire to run away from home
Compulsive longing for travel
Abnormal compulsion for wandering
Irrational self-centered attitude or self-worship
Manic desire for freedom
Mania for holding public office
Pathological belief that one has sinned
Abnormal belief that one is divinely inspired
Craze for writing epics
Excessive desire to work; ergomania
Excessive desire to work; workabholism
Abnormally powerful sex drive
Craving for ether
Obsessive devotion to ones own people
Obsessive craze 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

Graecomania
Graphomania
Gynaecomania
Habromania
Hagiomania
Hellenomania
Hexametermania
Hieromania
Hippomania
Hydromania
Hylomania
Hypermania
Hypomania
Hysteromania
Iconomania
Idolomania
Infomania
Islomania
Italomania
Kleptomania
Klopemania
Logomania
Lypemania
Macromania
Megalomania
Melomania
Methomania
Metromania
Micromania
Monomania
Morphinomania
Musomania
Mythomania
Narcromania
Necromania
Nosomania
Nostomania
Nymphomania
Oenomania
Oligomania
Oniomania
Onomamania
Onomatomania
Onychotillomania
Opiomania
Opsomania
Orchidomania
Parouciamania
Pathomania

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; Graecomania
Mania for writing in hexameter
Pathological religious visions or delusions
Obsession with horses
Irrational craving for water
Excessive tendency towards materialism
Severe mania
Minor mania
Nymphomania
Obsession with icons or portraits
Obsession or devotion to idols
Excessive devotion to accumulating facts
Craze or obsession for islands
Obsession with Italy or Italians
Irrational predilection for stealing
Kleptomania
Pathological loquacity
Extreme pathological mournfulness
Delusion that objects are larger than natural size
Abnormal tendency towards grand or grandiose behaviour
Craze for music
Morbid craving for alcohol
Insatiable desire for writing verse
Pathological self-deprecation or belief that one is very small
Abnormal obsession with a single thought or ideas
Habitual craving or desire for morphine
Obsession with music
Lying or exaggerating to an abnormal extent
Uncontrollable craving for narcotics
Sexual obsession with dead bodies; necrophila
Delusion of suffering from disease
Abnormal desire to go back to familiar places
Excessive or crazed sexual desire
Obsession or craze for wine
Obsession with a few thoughts or ideas
Mania for making purchases
Mania for names
Irresistible desire to repeat certain words
Compulsive picking at the fingernails
Craving for opium
Abnormal love for one kind of food
Abnormal obsession with orchids
Obsession with the second coming of Christ
Moral insanity

Peotillomania
Phagomania
Phaneromania
Pharmacomania
Phonomania
Photomania
Phyllomania
Phytomania
Planomania
Plutomania
Polemomania
Politicomania
Polkamania
Polymania
Poriomania
Pornomania
Potichomania
Potomania
Pseudomania
Pteridomania
Pyromania
Rhinotillexomania
Rinkomania
Satyromania
Scribbleomania
Sebastomania
Sitiomania
Sophomania
Squandermania
Stampomania
Syphilomania
Technomania
Teutomania
Thanatomania
Theatromania
Theoania
Timbromania
Tomomania
Toxicomania
Trichotillomania
Tulipomania
Typhomania
Typomania
Uranomania
Verbomania
Xenomania
Zoomania

Abnormal compulsion for pulling on the penis


Excessive desire for food or eating
Habit of biting ones nails
Abnormal obsession with trying drugs
Pathological tendency to murder
Pathological desire for light
Excessive or abnormal production of leaves
Obsession with collecting plants
Abnormal desire to wander and disobey social norms
Mania for money
Mania for war
Mania for politics
Craze for polka dancing
Mania affecting several different mental faculties
Abnormal compulsion to wander
Obsession with pornography
Craze for imitating Oriental porcelain
Abnormal desire to drink alcohol
Irrational predilection for lying
Passion for ferns
Craze for starting fires
Compulsive nose picking
Obsession with skating
Abnormally great male sexual desire; satyriasis
Obsession with scribbling
Religious insanity
Morbid aversion to food
Delusion that one is incredibly intelligent
Irrational propensity for sending money wastefully
Obsession with stamp-collecting
Pathological belief that one is afflicted with syphilis
Craze for technology
Obsession with Teutonic or German things
Belief that one has been affected by death magic, and
resulting illness
Craze of going to plays
Belief that one is a god
Craze for stamp collecting
Irrational predilection for performing surgery
Morbid craving for poisons
Neurosis where patient pulls out own hair
Obsession with tulips
Delirious state resulting from typhus fever
Craze for printing ones lucubration
Obsession with the idea of divinity
Craze for words
Inordinate attachment to foreign things
Insane fondness for animals

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