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androphonomania
Homicidal insanity.
Anglomania
An excessive admiration of English customs, etc.
anthomania
1. An extravagant passion or fancy for flowers.
2. An abnormal passion or desire for having flowers.
aphrodisiomania
1. An abnormally powerful sexual excitement or desire.
2. An excessive erotic interest.
3. A morbid desire for venery.
apimania
An excessive interest in bees.
arithmomania
A compulsive desire to count objects and to make calculations; such as, counting paces when walking, steps in a staircase, etc. A common symptom in obsessive-compulsive disorder.
asoticomania, asoticamania
A compulsion to buy, or spend, excessively. Self-destructive prodigality or squandering of money.
automania
1. A compulsion toward solitude or of being by oneself.
2. A preoccupation with suicide.
autophonomania
1. An obsessive desire to commit suicide.
2. A condition in which someone is suicidal.
balletomania
A passionate addiction to ballet dancing.
ballistomania
A fascination with bullets.
bancomania
A craze for establishing banks.
baptisiphily
A special interest in collecting Christian baptismal names.
Beatlemania
A frenzied desire for anything related to the British singing group, The Beatles.
bibliokleptomania, bibliocleptomania
1. A morbid tendency to steal books.
2. A compulsion to steal books.
3. A book thief who is regarded as someone who has a mental problem.
4. An uncontrollable or compulsive desire to steal and to possess books.
Books give not wisdom where none was before,
But where some is, there reading makes it more.
—John Harington
A "private collector" acquires additional books for his personal library.
See another bibliokleptomaniac who was in the news.
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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