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Chinamania
An extravagant fancy for the collection of old-china ware; or an excessive fondness for things Chinese.
chionomania
An obsessive desire for snow.
chiromania
A morbid impulse to masturbate; masturbatic-psychosis.
chloralomania
Addiction to chloral (alcohol and chlorine).
choleromania
Mania sometimes exhibited by victims of cholera.
choreomania or choromania
Craze for dancing. A disorder prevalent in the Middle Ages in which weird patterns of involuntary movement (hysterical chorea) superficially resembling chorea occurred. It is also called dancing chorea, epidemic chorea, jumping chorea, jumping disease, dancing mania, choromania, dancing disease, tarantism, jumping sickness, and tarentism.
chrematomania
1. Obsessive desire for money.
2. A preoccupation with creating wealth.
cingulomania
A strong desire to hold a person in one’s arms.
cleptomania
A spelling variation of
kleptomania; an irresistible tendency to steal in which a person steals not because of necessity but as a result of some compulsion.
A true story about a cleptomaniac or art thief.
cleptomania, kleptomania
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An example of a
cleptomaniac, or kleptomaniac, in action.
clinomania
An excessive or abnormal desire to stay in bed.
clitoromania
Hypersexuality in females; a compulsion by women to have sex.
cocainomania
1. A morbid craving for cocain.
2. Insanity with delusions accompanying excessive use of cocaine.
coitomania
An obsession for sex, especially by women.
coprolalomania
An obsession to involuntarily utter vulgar or obscene words.
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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