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as in dementia
a serious mental disorder that prevents one from living a safe and normal life
that form of mania often manifests itself in excessive and often incoherent talkativeness
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as in obsession
something about which one is constantly thinking or concerned
his wife was baffled and amused by his mania for old comic books
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Recent Examples of mania
Episodes of depression and mania or hypomania (less intense than mania) can cycle with unpredictable timing.
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Heidi Moawad, Verywell Health, 18 Oct. 2024
Milwaukee's residential real estate market mania has subsided — at least a bit.
—Genevieve Redsten, Journal Sentinel, 21 Oct. 2024
For the comparable quarter in 2021, near the height of the GameStop mania, Robinhood reported $102 billion in assets but 21.3 million monthly active users.
—Jesse Pound, CNBC, 17 Oct. 2024
If so, the mania described by Chow might result in abundant information and even progress, but not progress of the kind that protects the wealth of producers the world over from the theft that is inflation, and the economy-sapping uncertainty that is currency volatility.
—John Tamny, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
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Heidi Moawad, Verywell Health, 18 Oct. 2024
Milwaukee's residential real estate market mania has subsided — at least a bit.
—Genevieve Redsten, Journal Sentinel, 21 Oct. 2024
For the comparable quarter in 2021, near the height of the GameStop mania, Robinhood reported $102 billion in assets but 21.3 million monthly active users.
—Jesse Pound, CNBC, 17 Oct. 2024
If so, the mania described by Chow might result in abundant information and even progress, but not progress of the kind that protects the wealth of producers the world over from the theft that is inflation, and the economy-sapping uncertainty that is currency volatility.
—John Tamny, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mania
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Her grandmother has dementia and has to take 13 different medications.Madison Lammert, Journal Sentinel, 6 Nov. 2024
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Her mother, already difficult, is struggling with dementia, hence the road trip, which is meant to resettle her into Robin’s home.Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 26 Oct. 2024
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Opponent Kamala Harris' campaign—which has repeatedly mocked Trump's obsession with crowd size during the 2024 election cycle—shared a video on X, formerly Twitter, of the partially empty 7,200-seat venue.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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This absurd claim is an extension of their relentless obsession to remove checks and balances within our government.Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 5 Nov. 2024
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This is reminiscent of the famous remark that this is a fine line between genius and insanity.Lance Eliot, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
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Then again, believing that to be true might just be what insanity looks like from the inside.Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 15 Oct. 2024
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The first trailer for the upcoming Beatles 64 documentary chronicling the band’s arrival on U.S. shores six decades ago captures the hysteria that greeted John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr all those years ago.Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 18 Nov. 2024
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The big picture: Salem got its witchy reputation thanks to the very real 1692 hysteria in which Puritan townspeople turned against one another and executed 20 of their neighbors.Mike Deehan, Axios, 28 Oct. 2024
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Still, there was a method to Zimmer’s musical madness, which was entirely in alignment for McQueen’s unflinching vision for Blitz.Scott Huver, Deadline, 2 Nov. 2024
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Trying to pin down the human mental capacity of being creative or imaginative, and tie that to the human capacity of madness or hallucinating is a tough road to hoe.Lance Eliot, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
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New data presented last week at the 2024 Psych Congress suggests continued improvements in symptoms of schizophrenia with long-term treatment.Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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The project dives deep into the brilliant mind of Sylvia Frumkin, played by Shira Haas, a woman trapped in the grip of schizophrenia as her family struggles to navigate the mental health system during a New York City blackout.Max Goldbart, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2024
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“Mania.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mania. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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