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gephyromania
An irresistible fascination with bridges or an obsessive urge to cross bridges.
Germanomania
A mania or excessive interest in things German.
gigmania
1. An obsessive preoccupation with achieving or maintaining smug, middle-class respectability.
2. Worshipping smug respectability as the great object of life.
glazomania
An unusual fascination with making lists.
Graiomania or Grecomania
An excessive passion for things Greek.
graphomaniac
Anyone who has a mania, or excessive impulse and desire, to write.
gymnomania
1. The obsession of the “peeping Tom”; male voyeurism. A male voyeur is called a gymnogynomaniac. 2 A compulsion to be naked.
3. An abnormal interest in nakedness.
gynecomania
Satyriasis, an abnormal, excessive, insatiable sexual desire in the male for women; satyromania.
gynonudomania
An over-whelming urge to tear off a woman’s clothes.
habromania
A kind of insanity in which there are delusions of a cheerful character or gaiety.
hagiomania
A mania for sainthood.
hamartomania
A compulsion to sin.
hedonomania
An irresistible craving for pleasure.
heliomania
An uncontrollable craving, or desire, for the sun; often expressed by those who spend an excessive amount of time "sun bathing".
Hellenomania
1. A display of erudition by excessive use of Greek terms.
2. Using cumbersome Greek or Latin terms instead of those readily “understandable English 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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