Sentences with mania
ma·ni·a
M m - It seemed to some observers that the English had a mania for travelling. [+ for , + for]
- ...the treatment of mania.
- Another fan who is quite open about his Cliff mania is one Rachan Pathela.
- In fact it comes closer to Thorpe- mania, and is making him the best-known and most-loved Australian in Japan today.
- A mania for mushrooms
- A mania for dancing
- With celebrities such as Ashton Kutcher and Oprah Winfrey helping fuel Twitter mania, the micro-blogging website is soaring to stardom around the world.
- Mania in its basic sense (see definition above) describes the phase of bipolar affective disorder that is distinguished from depression; delirium denotes a temporary state of extreme mental disturbance (marked by restlessness, incoherence, and hallucinations) that occurs during fevers, in alcoholic psychosis, etc.; , frenzy, not used technically in psychiatry, implies extreme emotional agitation in which self-control is lost; , hysteria is applied in psychiatry to certain psychogenic disorders characterized by excitability, anxiety, sensory and motor disturbances, and the involuntary simulation of blindness, deafness, etc. In extended use, , mania suggests a craze for something [a mania for surfing], delirium, rapturous excitement [a delirium of joy], and hysteria, an outburst of wild, uncontrolled feeling [she laughed and cried in her hysteria]
- Dotcom mania was slow in coming to higher education, but now it has the venerable industry firmly in its grip. Since the launch early last year of Udacity and Coursera, two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations.