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What does mania mean?

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Noun
  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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The mania gave me energy and ideas, some of which were good and some of which were off the wall.
Yet the confusing thing about her mania, says Todd, is her ability to remain articulate, clever and funny.
The mania about guns emanating from America's white middle-class liberals seems peculiarly off-base to me.
Since then, Spector has been a virtual recluse, dogged by rumours of mania and madness.
In the 1830s and 40s railway mania charged across the country like a runaway train, and he was up at the front blowing the whistle.
Yet it was an unhappy household, made worse by hints of Behrman's mania to come.

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