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ablutomania
1. An obsessional preoccupation with cleanliness, washing, or bathing, often accompanied by compulsive rituals.
2. An obsessive-compulsive disorder is very often seen in a condition; such as, obsessive-compulsive psychoneurosis.
3. A morbid impulse to wash or to bathe, or an incessant preoccupation with thought of frequent hand-washing, or bathing; often seen as an obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Compulsive rituals are enormously time-consuming. One woman had a compulsion to wash her hands in a certain way after touching "unclean" objects; namely, from fingers to wrist, from wrist to elbow, and from elbow to upper arm, and then to repeat the performance until her anxiety was over, which could be several times. As a result, her hands often became painfully raw.
A young man had the compulsion to wash in a certain order whenever he had a bath. He said, "When I wash clothes or clean anything—floor, carpet, windows, and so on—I have to clean them in a certain manner to make sure I do not miss anything. I can never hurry because I would not feel that it has been done properly."
When the thoughts and rituals of obsessive-compulsive disorders are intense, the victim's work and home life disintegrate. With severe compulsions, endless rituals dominate each day.
—Judith L. Rapoport, M.D.; The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Washing
aboulomania, abulomania
1. A mental disorder in which there is a loss of will-power.
2. A pathological indecisiveness.
acronymania
Chronic incurable insanity.
adipomania
An unhealthy process of putting on excessive weight (fat) by excessive eating of fat-producing foods (snacks, fast foods, etc.).
Could this guy also have a significant obsession known as callomania, or the delusion that a person thinks he is "beautiful" or, in this case, physically well developed and handsome?
aedoeomania
Hypersexuality in females. An obsolete term for nymphomania.
agoramania
1. Agoraphilia or a pathologic craving for public places.
2. A morbid dislike of being alone.
agriomania
An “obsolete term” for a wild, ferocious mania.
agromania
A morbid impulse to live in the open country, in solitude, or withdrawal from society; sometimes a symptom of schizophrenia.
agyiomania
1. An excessive desire to be on the streets.
2. An abnormal interest in streets.
aidoiomania
An abnormal preoccupation with sexual fantasies or activities.
alcoholomania
Alcoholism; an excessive desire to drink alcoholic beverages.
Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
—Seneca (c. 4 BC - AD 65) Roman writer, philosopher, statesman
amaxomania
A compulsion to be in vehicles.
amenomania, amoenomania
1. Pleasing delusions; a form of monomania.
2. A mania characterized by cheerfulness, gaiety, etc.
Americamania, Americomania
A craze for things that are American; an excessive desire to have American styles, food, culture, etc.
andromania
Nymphomania [abnormal, excessive, insatiable sexual desire in the female for a man].
Cross references of word families that are related directly, or indirectly, to: "anger, angry; rage, wrath, fury; rave":
fur-, furi-;
ira-;
lysso-;
rab-, rav-.
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