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petalomania
An unusual multiplication of floral petals.
phagomania
An insatiable hunger or craving for food, or an obsessive preoccupation with the subject of eating.
phaneromania
1. An uncontrollable impulse to pick at a spot or growth on one’s body; the habit of picking at scabs, biting one’s nails, or picking pimples.
2. The constant preoccupation with some external part of the body, as plucking the beard, pulling the lobe of the ear, etc.
pharmacomania, pharmacophilia
1. A craze for using or for trying drugs; a chronic fascination with medicines.
2. An uncontrollable desire to take or to administer medicines.
philopatridomania
1. An irresistible urge to stay home; homesickness.
2. A compulsion to return to one’s native land, as seen in prisoners of war.
phlebotomomania
A compulsion for bloodletting as was once practiced by “medical” doctors who believed that most illnesses were caused by diseased blood and could only be cured by bleeding their patients; even if it killed them.
phonomania
An obsession with noise or sounds.
photomania
1. An irresistible craving for light or the sun (heliolatry).
2. A morbid or exaggerated desire for light.
3. Maniacal symptoms increased by the effect of light.
phrenomania
An obsolete term for collapse delirium; delirious mania.
phronemomania
A compulsion to be thinking all the time.
phthisiomania
An abnormal interest in tuberculosis; such as, an over concern that one might contract the disease.
phyllomania
An abnormally excessive development of leaves.
phytomania
A craze for collecting plants.
planomania
1. A compulsion to wander.
2. The morbid impulse to leave home and discard many social restraints.
3. A strong desire, or urge, to live a life of simplicity free from social restraints or obligations.
plutomania
1. An insane love or pursuit of wealth.
2. A form of insanity in which the person imagines himself/herself possessing great wealth.
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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