mania

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

mania [mania manias] BrE [ˈmeɪniə] NAmE [ˈmeɪniə] noun
1. countable, usually singular, uncountable ~ (for sth/for doing sth) an extremely strong desire or enthusiasm for sth, often shared by a lot of people at the same time
Syn: ↑craze
•He had a mania for fast cars.
•Football mania is sweeping the country.
2. uncountable (psychology)a mental illness in which sb has an ↑obsession about sth that makes them extremely anxious, violent or confused
•She was diagnosed as suffering from persecution mania.

Word Origin:
late Middle English: via late Latin from Greek, literally madness, from mainesthai ‘be mad’.

Example Bank:
•The violence of the crowd can only be explained as a sign of some collective mania.
•This is another example of Hollywood's new mania for ghost movies.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  manic disorder, passion, cacoethes