mania

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World Cup mania has spread across the continent.

It was the most irrational financial bubble since Tulip Mania.

"You have a mania for simplifying everything," answered the Englishman, irritated.  (source) Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist, 1988

Today the crowd has a new kind of energy, a last day mania.  (source) Veronica Roth, Divergent, 2011

"I myself," says Dr. DuPont, "tend to place prostitution in the same class as the homicidal and religious manias; all may be considered, perhaps, as an impulse to play-act which has run out of control.†  (source) Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace, 1996

The Admiral knows that claiming responsibility for Emby's absence would play right into the mania that Roland is creating.  (source) Neal Shusterman, Unwind, 2007

Used to his manias, Aureliano paid no attention to him.†  (source) Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude, 1967

He came home with a mania for running.  (source) Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken, 2010

His manias make a startling combination.  (source) Bram Stoker, Dracula, 1897

Ever since he retired, what was once a mere pastime of my father's has now become a full-time mania that can be summed up in one word: time-shares.  (source) Firoozeh Dumas, Funny in Farsi, 2003

The only score we would have been totally happy with would have been 100 to 0. And right there in the middle of it all, in the midst of this perfect season mania, was Stargirl, popping up whenever the ball went through the net, no matter which team scored, cheering everything and everybody.  (source) Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl, 2000

Everyone demented with the mania of owning things.  (source) John Green, Paper Towns, 2008

Frindle-mania was over.  (source) Andrew Clements, Frindle, 1996

Impulsive acts accompanying mania often lead to problems.

But Dad's mania for the machine had carried him beyond the reach of reason.  (source) Tara Westover, Educated, 2018

As December progressed, the Bird's mania deepened.  (source) Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken, 2010

For some reason — impending mania, perhaps — this really irritated me.  (source) Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse, 2007

There are a lot of names: depression, catatonia, mania, anxiety, agitation.  (source) Susanna Kaysen, Girl Interrupted, 1993

"Religious mania, that's the ticket…." "It's crazy-everything's crazy."  (source) Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None, 1939

And it reads like rage growing to mania!  (source) H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man, 1897

...this would seem to qualify them to know something about those intricacies involved in the question of moral responsibility; whether in a given case, say, the crime proceeded from mania in the brain or rabies of the heart.  (source) Herman Melville, Billy Budd, 1924

It almost seems as though the captain had been seized with some kind of mania before he had got well into blue water, and that this had developed persistently throughout the voyage.  (source) Bram Stoker, Dracula, 1897

But apart from temporary aberration, the doctor diagnosed mania, which premised, in his words, to lead to complete insanity in the future.  (source) Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, 1880

As December progressed and the bombers kept coming, the Bird's mania deepened.  (source) Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken - adapted for young adults, 2014

But they immediately drew the deduction that the crime could only have been committed through temporary mental derangement, through homicidal mania, without object or the pursuit of gain.  (source) Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment, 1866

I reached for some explanation and strange words came to mind, words I'd learned only minutes before: paranoia, mania, delusions of grandeur and persecution.  (source) Tara Westover, Educated, 2018