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What is the noun for mania?

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mania
  1. Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity.
  2. Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; fanaticism.
  3. (psychiatry) The state of abnormally elevated or irritable mood, arousal, and/or energy levels.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “Those with a mania for tulips never let empty pockets sour a sale.”
      “Since then, he has been a virtual recluse, dogged by rumors of mania and madness.”
      “The story also illustrates the most radical difference between mania and hypomania.”
maniac
  1. An insane person, especially one who suffers from a mania.
  2. A fanatic, a person with an obsession.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “They wish to maintain a standard of me as a crazy maniac and not an intelligent, articulate political activist.”
      “Because she knows I'm a sports maniac, the shopkeeper always talks to me about my favorite teams.”
      “He was walking with a pronounced stoop, gleefully rubbing his hands together and grinning like a maniac.”
maniacality
  1. (rare) The condition of being maniacal; mania
maniack
  1. Obsolete form of maniac.
maniacks
  1. plural of maniack
maniacs
  1. plural of maniac
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Chances are that a small town in Georgia is going to include an equal proportion of rednecks, religious maniacs and nutters.”
      “It's a party comprised of anarchists, absurdists, activists, practical jokers, perverts, weirdos, maniacs, oddballs, and morons.”
      “Nowadays, no sooner is an asylum built than it is filled with maniacs, suicidal melancholics, or senile dements in need of care and treatment.”
manias
  1. plural of mania
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Unlike more transitory fads and fashions, however, financial manias and panics have real and lasting economic consequences.”
      “These are technology-driven bubbles, not fad-fueled manias like tulips, or fraud like the South Sea scam.”
      “And there is some dispute about whether events like the Asian crisis really constitute market manias and panics.”
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