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as in dementia
a serious mental disorder that prevents one from living a safe and normal life
that form of mania often manifests itself in excessive and often incoherent talkativeness
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as in obsession
something about which one is constantly thinking or concerned
his wife was baffled and amused by his mania for old comic books
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Recent Examples of mania
The states that fall for the tax-the-rich mania will be left in the dust, with failing economies and shrinking political clout in Congress.
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Betsy McCaughey, Boston Herald, 16 Mar. 2026
When lightning survivors insist, as many do, on unplugging their appliances in preparation for a storm, this is not tinfoil-hat mania.
—Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2026
The aesthetically inclined and chronically online will have noticed the Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy-mania presently saturating popular culture.
—Alex Surprenant, Vogue, 15 Mar. 2026
The lip-kit mania also coincided with Kylie becoming a mother, forcing her to juggle pregnancy and maternity along with the incessant branding of her, not just as a member of television’s most famous family but also as the model for what a Gen Z CEO can be.
—Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 11 Mar. 2026
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Betsy McCaughey, Boston Herald, 16 Mar. 2026
When lightning survivors insist, as many do, on unplugging their appliances in preparation for a storm, this is not tinfoil-hat mania.
—Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2026
The aesthetically inclined and chronically online will have noticed the Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy-mania presently saturating popular culture.
—Alex Surprenant, Vogue, 15 Mar. 2026
The lip-kit mania also coincided with Kylie becoming a mother, forcing her to juggle pregnancy and maternity along with the incessant branding of her, not just as a member of television’s most famous family but also as the model for what a Gen Z CEO can be.
—Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 11 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mania
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Shon Lowe, a Chicago-area resident, is a patient advocate and caregiver to her mother, Terrie Montgomery, a longtime advocate who lives with frontotemporal dementia.—
Shon Lowe,
Twin Cities,
26 Mar. 2026
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Prosecutors used details from the home takeover to argue for a lengthy prison term, describing how Serrano and other gangsters took advantage of an 84-year-old woman who had dementia.—
Nate Gartrell,
Mercury News,
26 Mar. 2026
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This is a novel about Jewish bodies and how people respond to them, the toll of obsession, and the conflicting currents of desire and unease that shake and startle a deep romantic fixation.—
Daniel Felsenthal,
Vulture,
26 Mar. 2026
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But Mormonism is a high-demand, patriarchal religion, and the church’s obsession with Godly worthiness has only made the fixation on beauty flourish.—
Elizabeth Gulino,
Allure,
26 Mar. 2026
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In this world, at this time, a little insanity can go a long way.—
Neil Senturia,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 Mar. 2026
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Kennedy calls fortification ‘insanity’ That view contrasts sharply with critics — including some at the highest level of government — who regard fortification of the food supply as a form of government overreach.—
Jonel Aleccia,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Mar. 2026
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His high school gym was not the massive cathedrals built to serve the altars of Hoosier hysteria, but with 4,620 seats, the Greenfield Cougar Den is no slouch, either.—
Dana O’Neil,
CNN Money,
30 Mar. 2026
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But thanks to the postwar anti-alien hysteria and the deportation laws enacted during and soon after the First World War, the island’s business has become the expulsion of foreigners.—
Christine Smallwood,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Mar. 2026
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Ice Cream Man follows an idyllic summer town descending into madness when an ice cream man serves kids sweet delights with horrifying results.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
31 Mar. 2026
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The slasher takes place in an idyllic summer town that descends into madness when an ice cream man serves kids from his truck with horrifying results.—
Rebecca Rubin,
Variety,
31 Mar. 2026
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Prosecutors focused in the first trial on Dominguez’s mental state at the time of the attacks, with doctors testifying to his diagnosis of schizophrenia.—
Darrell Smith,
Sacbee.com,
25 Mar. 2026
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Children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder have been identified to be at greater risk of developing psychotic conditions such as bipolar or schizophrenia, compared with neurotypical kids.—
David Cox,
NBC news,
25 Mar. 2026
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“Mania.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mania. Accessed 2 Apr. 2026.
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