Manias and Obsessions
Word
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Definition
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Ablutomania
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mania for washing oneself
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Aboulomania
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pathological indecisiveness
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Agromania
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intense desire to be in open spaces
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Andromania
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nymphomania
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Anglomania
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craze or obsession with England and the English
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Anthomania
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obsession with flowers
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Aphrodisiomania
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abnormal sexual interest
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Arithmomania
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obsessive preoccupation with numbers
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Balletomania
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abnormal fondness for ballet
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Bibliomania
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craze for books or reading
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Bruxomania
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compulsion for grinding teeth
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Cacodemomania
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pathological belief that one is inhabited by an evil spirit
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Catapedamania
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obsession with jumping from high places
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Chinamania
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obsession with collecting china
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Choreomania
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dancing mania or frenzy
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Clinomania
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excessive desire to stay in bed
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Copromania
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obsession with feces
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Cytheromania
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nymphomania
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Dacnomania
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obsession with killing
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Demonomania
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pathological belief that one is possessed by demons
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Dinomania
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mania for dancing
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Dipsomania
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abnormal craving for alcohol
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Discomania
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obsession for disco music
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Doramania
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obsession with owning furs
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Doromania
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obsession with giving gifts
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Drapetomania
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intense desire to run away from home
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Dromomania
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compulsive longing for travel
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Ecdemomania
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abnormal compulsion for wandering
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Egomania
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irrational self-centered attitude or self-worship
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Eleutheromania
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manic desire for freedom
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Empleomania
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mania for holding public office
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Enosimania
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pathological belief that one has sinned
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Entheomania
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abnormal belief that one is divinely inspired
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Epomania
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craze for writing epics
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Ergasiomania
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excessive desire to work; ergomania
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Ergomania
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excessive desire to work; workaholism
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Erotomania
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abnormally powerful sex drive
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Etheromania
|
craving for ether
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Ethnomania
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obsessive devotion to one's own people
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Eulogomania
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obsessive craze for eulogies
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Flagellomania
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abnormal enthusiasm for flogging
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Florimania
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craze for flowers
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Francomania
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craze or obsession with France and the French
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Gallomania
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craze or obsession with France and the French
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Gamomania
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obsession with issuing odd marriage proposals
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Graecomania
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obsession with Greece and the Greeks
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Graphomania
|
obsession with writing
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Gynaecomania
|
abnormal sexual obsession with women
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Habromania
|
insanity featuring cheerful delusions
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Hagiomania
|
mania for sainthood
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Hellenomania
|
obsession with Greece and the Greeks; Graecomania
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Hexametromania
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mania for writing in hexameter
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Hieromania
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pathological religious visions or delusions
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Hippomania
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obsession with horses
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Hydromania
|
irrational craving for water
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Hylomania
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excessive tendency towards materialism
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Hypermania
|
severe mania
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Hypomania
|
minor mania
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Hysteromania
|
nymphomania
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Iconomania
|
obsession with icons or portraits
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Idolomania
|
obsession or devotion to idols
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Infomania
|
excessive devotion to accumulating facts
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Islomania
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craze or obsession for islands
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Italomania
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obsession with Italy or Italians
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Kleptomania
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irrational predilection for stealing
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Klopemania
|
kleptomania
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Logomania
|
pathological loquacity
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Lypemania
|
extreme pathological mournfulness
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Macromania
|
delusion that objects are larger than natural size
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Megalomania
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abnormal tendency towards grand or grandiose behaviour
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Melomania
|
craze for music
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Methomania
|
morbid craving for alcohol
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Metromania
|
insatiable desire for writing verse
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Micromania
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pathological self-deprecation or belief that one is very small
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Monomania
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abnormal obsession with a single thought or idea
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Morphinomania
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habitual craving or desire for morphine
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Musomania
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obsession with music
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Mythomania
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lying or exaggerating to an abnormal extent
|
Narcomania
|
uncontrollable craving for narcotics
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Necromania
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sexual obsession with dead bodies; necrophilia
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Nosomania
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delusion of suffering from a disease
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Nostomania
|
abnormal desire to go back to familiar places
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Nymphomania
|
excessive or crazed sexual desire
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Oenomania
|
obsession or craze for wine
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Oligomania
|
obsession with a few thoughts or ideas
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Oniomania
|
mania for making purchases
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Onomamania
|
mania for names
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Onomatomania
|
irresistible desire to repeat certain words
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Onychotillomania
|
compulsive picking at the fingernails
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Opiomania
|
craving for opium
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Opsomania
|
abnormal love for one kind of food
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Orchidomania
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abnormal obsession with orchids
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Parousiamania
|
obsession with the second coming of Christ
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Pathomania
|
moral insanity
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Peotillomania
|
abnormal compulsion for pulling on the penis
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Phagomania
|
excessive desire for food or eating
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Phaneromania
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habit of biting one’s nails
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Pharmacomania
|
abnormal obsession with trying drugs
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Phonomania
|
pathological tendency to murder
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Photomania
|
pathological desire for light
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Phyllomania
|
excessive or abnormal production of leaves
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Phytomania
|
obsession with collecting plants
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Planomania
|
abnormal desire to wander and disobey social norms
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Plutomania
|
mania for money
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Polemomania
|
mania for war
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Politicomania
|
mania for politics
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Polkamania
|
craze for polka dancing
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Polymania
|
mania affecting several different mental faculties
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Poriomania
|
abnormal compulsion to wander
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Pornomania
|
obsession with pornography
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Potichomania
|
craze for imitating Oriental porcelain
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Potomania
|
abnormal desire to drink alcohol
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Pseudomania
|
irrational predilection for lying
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Pteridomania
|
passion for ferns
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Pyromania
|
craze for starting fires
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Rhinotillexomania
|
compulsive nose picking
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Rinkomania
|
obsession with skating
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Satyromania
|
abnormally great male sexual desire; satyriasis
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Scribbleomania
|
obsession with scribbling
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Sebastomania
|
religious insanity
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Sitiomania
|
morbid aversion to food
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Sophomania
|
delusion that one is incredibly intelligent
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Squandermania
|
irrational propensity for spending money wastefully
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Stampomania
|
obsession with stamp-collecting
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Syphilomania
|
pathological belief that one is afflicted with syphilis
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Technomania
|
craze for technology
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Teutomania
|
obsession with Teutonic or German things
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Thanatomania
|
belief that one has been affected by death magic and resulting illness
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Theatromania
|
craze for going to plays
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Theomania
|
belief that one is a god
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Timbromania
|
craze for stamp collecting
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Tomomania
|
irrational predilection for performing surgery
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Toxicomania
|
morbid craving for poisons
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Trichotillomania
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neurosis where patient pulls out own hair
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Tulipomania
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obsession with tulips
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Typhomania
|
delirious state resulting from typhus fever
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Typomania
|
craze for printing one’s lucubrations
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Uranomania
|
obsession with the idea of divinity
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Verbomania
|
craze for words
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Xenomania
|
inordinate attachment to foreign things
|
Zoomania
|
insane fondness for animals
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