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empleomania
A compulsive desire to hold public office or some public employment.
empresiomania
Another term for pyromania [abnormal interest in fire].
enomania
An abnormal interest in wine either as a collector or as a drinker.
enoptromania
1. An overwhelming desire to use mirrors.
2. An abnormal use of mirrors.
enoptromaniac
Someone with a compulsion to examine herself or himself in a mirror or mirrors.
enosimania
Obsessional belief of the patient that he/she has committed an unpardonable sin.
entheomania
Obsessive zeal for religion or demonomania; religious insanity.
entomomania
An abnormal or compulsive fascination with insects.
epomania
A rage for writing epics.
erasionomania
A compulsion to work.
eremiomania
Irresistible craving for quiet or solitude.
eretodromomania
A compulsion to wander.
ergasiomania
1. A compulsion to work or to be active; a morbid need to work.
2. Undue eagerness to perform surgery.
ergomania
An obsessive zeal for or a compulsion to be constantly at work.
The correct term for over work instead of the commonly used “workaholic“ which is etymologically wrong.
This image represents an ergomaniac who worked right up to the point of this last entry and so signifies his efforts to complete his last project even to the very end of his existence! It may also be said that he represents the ultimate in persistence (or stupidity).
eroticomania
1. An abnormally powerful sex drive.
2. A melancholy or kind of insanity arising from passionate love.
3. A pathologic preoccupation with sexual fantasies or activities. A syndrome that occurs almost exclusively in women and consists of a delusional belief that a man, usually older and of higher social status, is deeply in love with the patient.
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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