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heroinomania
An addiction to heroin.
hieromania
1. Religious insanity; a pathologic religious fervor characterized by delusions with a religious content.
2. Pathological religious visions or delusions.
3. An abnormal interest in priests.
hippomania
An obsessive fascination for or an excessive enthusiasm for horses.
hodomania
1. An abnormal desire to travel.
2. An excessive compulsion to be traveling.
homicidomania
Any kind of mental disease where there is an irresistible impulse to commit murder; used now instead of the previously used term of phonomania.
hydrargyromania
A mental disorder due to mercury poisoning.
hydrodipsomania
An epileptic condition characterized by attacks of uncontrollable or insatiable thirst.
hydromania
1. An excessive craving for water or liquids; an uncontrollable fascination with water.
2. An impulse to commit suicide by drowning.
hylomania
An excessive tendency towards materialism or a fascination for forests.
hypermania
1. A severe mania in which there is a partial or complete disorientation, and often accompanied by violent behavior.
2. Intense mania with overwhelming tensions and marked disorientation.
hyperpolysyllabicomania
An excessive fondness for, or desire to use, big words: “He presented me with this hyperpolysyllabicomaniac statement: It is impossible to indoctrinate a superannuated canine in the intricacies of innovative feats of legerdemain.”
hypnomania
A mania or excessive desire for sleeping.
hypomania, hypomaniac
A minor form of mania characterized by elation and a feeling of well-being together with quickness of thought. An abnormality of mood resembling mania (persistent elevated or expansive mood, hyperactivity, inflated self-esteem, etc.) but of lesser intensity.
hysteromania
An old name for nymphomania.
ichthyomania
An excessive fascination with fish.
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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