MANIAS Synonyms

• being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs)

• an abnormally strong craving

• (Roman law) a formal award by a magistrate of a thing or person to another person (as the award of a debtor to his creditor); a surrender to a master

• a feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause)

• intense feeling of love

• feelings of great warmth and intensity

• an intense desire for some particular thing

• an interest followed with exaggerated zeal

• state of violent mental agitation

• a fine crack in a glaze or other surface

• cause to go crazy; cause to lose one's mind

• develop a fine network of cracks

• the feeling that accompanies an unsatisfied state

• an inclination to want things

• something that is desired

• feel or have a desire for; want strongly

• expect and wish

• express a desire for

• a feeling of excitement

• overflowing with eager enjoyment or approval

• a lively interest

• an interest followed with exaggerated zeal

• not plain; decorative or ornamented

• something many people believe that is false

• imagination or fantasy; held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination

• a predisposition to like something

• imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind

• have a fancy or particular liking or desire for

• the state of being intensely interested (as by awe or terror)

• a feeling of great liking for something wonderful and unusual

• the capacity to attract intense interest

• a form of sexual desire in which gratification depends to an abnormal degree on some object or item of clothing or part of the body

• a charm superstitiously believed to embody magical powers

• excessive or irrational devotion to some activity

• a rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection

• a state of nervous excitement

• an abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely

• an unhealthy and compulsive preoccupation with something or someone

• the activity of fastening something firmly in position

• (histology) the preservation and hardening of a tissue sample to retain as nearly as possible the same relations they had in the living body

• a foolish and usually extravagant passion or love or admiration

• temporary love of an adolescent

• an object of extravagant short-lived passion

• a strong sexual desire

• self-indulgent sexual desire (personified as one of the deadly sins)

• have a craving, appetite, or great desire for

• an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions, even against your will

• an unhealthy and compulsive preoccupation with something or someone

• a strong feeling or emotion

• the suffering of Jesus at the Crucifixion

• the trait of being intensely emotional

• something that is desired intensely

• an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action

• a feeling of strong sexual desire

• any object of warm affection or devotion

• an idea that preoccupies the mind and holds the attention

• the mental state of being preoccupied by something

• the act of taking occupancy before someone else does

• an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action

• a strong feeling or emotion

• the suffering of Jesus at the Crucifixion

• the trait of being intensely emotional

• something that is desired intensely

• an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action

• a feeling of strong sexual desire

• any object of warm affection or devotion

• a mood disorder; an affective disorder in which the victim tends to respond excessively and sometimes violently