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lexicomania
An excessive desire for studying or collecting dictionaries.
logomania, logomaniac
1. A form of insanity in which one talks excessively; over talkativeness.
2. A rapid, pressured, flow of words when speaking.
logomonomania
Great loquacity. Considered obsolete because an abnormal mental state that is characterized only by great loquacity is difficult to diagnose as the only symptom of a psychiatric symptom.
lycomania
Lycanthropy or the belief that one can change him/herself or others into a wolf or some other animal.
lypemania
Extreme mournfulness, sadness, or melancholy.
machlaenomania
Masochism in females.
macromania
A form of insanity in which the person conceives of things, especially parts of his/her own body, to be larger than they really are.
maieusiomania
A psychosis related to childbirth and resulting from, or occurring, after childbirth.
mania, manias
1. Mental derangement characterized by great excitement, delusions and hallucinations and, in its extreme stages, by great violence.
2. A period of great excitement affecting a body of people.
3. An emotional disorder characterized by some euphoria or irritability, increased psychomotor activity, rapid speech, flight of ideas, decreased need for sleep, distractibility, grandiosity, and poor judgment.
maniac
1. Considered an “obsolete” term for a mentally ill or disturbed person.
2. A reference to someone who is suffering from, or who has, a mental derangement characterized by great excitement, delusions and hallucinations and, in extreme stages, by great violence.
maniacal
1. Suggestive of or afflicted with insanity.
2. Characterized by excessive enthusiasm or excitement.
3. Characterized by mania.
maniaphobia
An extreme concern of becoming insane or of seeing others who are mentally ill.
manic
Relating to, affected by, or resembling mania.
manic excitement
A disorder characterized by hyperactivity, talkativeness, flight of ideas, pressured speech, grandiosity, and, occasionally, grandiose delusions.
medicomania
A mania that appears as a symptom of some physical disease.
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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