Definitions for mania

mania ma·ni·a

Spelling: [mey-nee-uh, meyn-yuh]
IPA: /ˈmeɪ ni ə, ˈmeɪn yə/

Mania is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 56 anagrams from letters in mania (aaimn).

Definitions for mania

noun

  1. excessive excitement or enthusiasm; craze:
  2. Psychiatry. manic disorder.
  3. an ancient Roman goddess of the dead.

Origin of mania

1350-1400; Middle English Latin Greek manía madness; akin to maenad, mind

Examples for mania

The more important smell test is one of tone: that cocktail of cleverness, warmth, and mania that marked the Henson years.

People ceased paying attention to it, it was a mania of his so he had declared.

I have a mania, by no means always gratified,––to be out of doors.

Not only that, but you have a mania for insisting that other men drink with you.

Hours after these reports, one of which I published, the mania was in full swing.

He was an enthusiastic cyclist, and speed was a mania with him.

With billions in sales, crashed online servers, and a bestselling soundtrack, ‘Grand Theft Auto V’ mania is upon us.

But her own devotion increased until it at last became a mania.

If you want to predict trends in America, whether in politics or products, World Cup mania should serve as a wake-up call.

The debt ceiling is approaching, and Washington is in the grips of another round of mania.

Word Value for mania
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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