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onomatomania
1. A mania for names.
2. A morbid preoccupation with words and names or a mania for word-making.
3. A preoccupation with words and names.
4. An abnormal impulse to dwell upon certain words and their supposed significance or to frantically try to recall a particular word.
onychotillomania
1. An excessive neurotic tendency to pick at (or to pull out) one's fingernails, or toenails.
2. The neurotic picking at a nail until it is permanently altered.
ophidiomania
An excessive interest in snakes or other reptiles including a great interest in observing them, studying them, and having them as pets.
opiomania
Excessive craving for opium or opiates in general.
opsomania
1. A pathological or morbid yearning for delicacies or for some specific food.
2. A pathological craving for sweets, such as may occur in binge-eating syndrome.
3. A longing for a particular article of diet, or for highly seasoned food.
orchestromania
A compulsion to dance.
orchidomania
A craze for orchids OR an excessive fascination with testicles.
oreximania
1. A compulsion to eat or an excessive appetite for food.
2. An enormous increase in food consumption as a result of fearing that one is too thin.
3. The consumption of enormous quantities of food motivated by a fear of losing weight.
ornithomania
An excessive fascination with birds.
paramania
An irresistible impulse to derive joy, or pleasure, from complaints.
paratereseomania, parateresiomania
A compulsion to see new sights and places.
parousiamania
An obsessive zeal or preoccupation with the second coming of Christ.
pathomania
A morbid perversion of the natural feelings, affections, inclinations, and natural impulses without any remarkable disorder of the intellect; moral insanity.
peotillomania
1. Pseudomasturbation.
2. A nervous tic consisting of the constant pulling or the touching of one’s penis without masturbatory intention.
peromania
A compulsion for mutilation or maiming.
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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