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rhizomania
An abnormal development of roots.
Russomania
An excessive desire for Russian culture and related objects.
satyromania
1. An abnormal, obsessive, uncontrollable, and insatiable sexual desire by men; usually a sexual lust for women.
2. A passion or excessive desire for sex by a male; also called satyriasis.
schizomania
1. A combination of a manic or major depressive syndrome.
2. A mixture of schizophrenia and manic symptoms.
scribbleomania, scribblemania
1. A craze or mania for scribbling.
2. A craze or abnormal desire for writing often and quickly.
scribomania
1. An obsessive zeal for writing quickly and very often.
2. Sometimes in its more psychotic condition, it refers to writing a long succession of unconnected words.
3. Pressured writing or a compulsive need to write, often without regard to the worth of what is being written; graphomania.
sebastomania
Religious psychosis.
selenomania
Maniacal symptoms induced by moonlight.
siderodromomania
An intense fascination with railroad travel.
sideromania
An obsession with the heavens and what comes from them: such as, meteors and other elements.
sitiomania
A craze for food or certain kinds of food.
sitomania, sitomaniac
The same as sitiomania. Bulimia; a morbid, voracious appetite.
sophomania
1. An abnormal over estimation of one’s own wisdom.
2. A passion for grandiose statements about one’s own wisdom.
squandermania
An insane desire or obsession to spend money recklessly or to waste assets.
strychninomania or strychnomania
A mental aberration due to strychnine poisoning.
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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