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nepiomania
An abnormally strong desire by a woman to have a baby.
nesomania, nesomaniac
An intense obsession with islands.
netomania, internetomania
Coined by psychiatrist, Nathan Shapira, of the University of Cincinnati.
Dr. Shapira thinks that excessive online use should be considered not as a separate addiction but as a disorder of impulse control, in the same category as kleptomania or compulsive shopping. (As seen in USA Today, June 1, 1998).
noctimania or noctomania
An intense fascination with night as opposed to daylight.
nosomania
1. An obsession with imagined disease; such as, hypochondriacism or hypochondriasis.
2. An unfounded morbid belief that one is suffering from some special disease.
nostomania
1. An exaggerated form of nostalgia.
2. An intense homesickness or an irresistible urge to return home.
3. An overwhelming desire to return home or to go back to familiar places.
4. Homesickness as an illness.
nudomania
1. A compulsion for nudity; a strong desire to be in the nude.
2. An abnormal interest in nudity.
nymphomania, nymphomaniac, nymphomaniacal
1. A feminine mental disease characterized by some kind of morbid and uncontrollable desire for sex.
2. An abnormal, excessive, insatiable sexual desire in the female; the counterpart of
satyriasis in a male.
Synonymous terms include: andromania; cytheromania; estromania; metromania; tentigo venerea; thelygonia; female hypersexuality.
ochlomania
An intense obsession or desire to be in crowds.
oenomania
An excessive desire for drinking wine.
oestromania, oestromaniac
Hypersexuality in females or nymphomania.
oikomania, oikiomania, oicomania
1. A mental disorder caused by some kind of wretched or abusive domestic circumstances.
2. An obsessive craving or desire to be at home or a morbid attitude toward the members of one’s family.
oligomania
A madness which shows itself in just a few aspects or on a few subjects.
oniomania, oniomaniac
1. A morbidly exaggerated need or urge to buy beyond the realistic needs of the individual.
2. An uncontrollable compulsion or desire to buy things.
3. Compulsive shopping; an excessive, uncontrollable desire to buy things.
onomamania
A rage or madness about a name or names.
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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