mania

CEFRC1

/ˈmeɪ.ni.ə/

noun

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In plain English

01
noun
An unusually strong interest or excitement about something.
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noun
Extra detail
Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; fanaticism.

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At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meanings

The state of abnormally elevated or irritable mood, arousal, and/or energy levels.
Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity.

In context

He has mania for sports cars.
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...

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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.
2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845, archived from the original on 17 Jul 2020
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.”
2018 October 16, John Blake, “When Americans tried to breed a better race: How a genetic fitness ‘crusade’ marches on”, in CNN

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Borrowed from Latin mania, from Ancient Greek μανία (manía, “madness”).