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# Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; fanaticism.
# Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; fanaticism.
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#*{{quote-magazine|date=2013-07-20|volume=408|issue=8845|magazine={{w|The Economist}}
#* {{quote-magazine|date=2013-07-20|volume=408|issue=8845|magazine={{w|The Economist}}
|title=[http://www.economist.com/news/http://www.economist.com/news/business/21582001-army-new-online-courses-scaring-wits-out-traditional-universities-can-they The attack of the MOOCs]
|title=[http://www.economist.com/news/http://www.economist.com/news/business/21582001-army-new-online-courses-scaring-wits-out-traditional-universities-can-they The attack of the MOOCs]
|passage=Dotcom '''mania''' was slow in coming to higher education, but now it has the venerable industry firmly in its grip. Since the launch early last year of Udacity and Coursera, two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations.}}
|passage=Dotcom '''mania''' was slow in coming to higher education, but now it has the venerable industry firmly in its grip. Since the launch early last year of Udacity and Coursera, two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations.}}
# {{context|psychiatry|lang=en}} The state of abnormally elevated or irritable mood, arousal, and/or energy levels.

====Related terms====
====Related terms====
* [[batmania]]
* [[batmania]]
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* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|mania|f}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|manía|f}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|manía|f}}
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{{trans-top|state of abnormally elevated or irritable mood, arousal, and/or energy levels}}
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Revision as of 09:48, 29 September 2013

See also: -mania, mánia, mânia, manía, and -manía

English

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Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin (deprecated template usage) mania, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek (deprecated template usage) Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter "sc" should be a valid script code; the value "polytonic" is not valid. See WT:LOS..

Pronunciation

  • Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "US" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E.: Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "/ˈmeɪniə/" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E., Template:X-SAMPA
  • Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "ma" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E.
  • Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "eɪniə" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E.

Noun

mania (plural manias)

  1. Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity.
  2. Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; fanaticism.
  3. (deprecated template usage) (psychiatry) The state of abnormally elevated or irritable mood, arousal, and/or energy levels.

Translations

Anagrams

Finnish

Noun

mania

  1. mania

Declension

Lua error in Module:fi-nominals at line 192: Vowel harmony (parameter 2) must be "a" or "ä".

Noun

mania

  1. The template Template:fi-form of does not use the parameter(s): 
    type=noun
    Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.    (deprecated template usage) partitive singular of mani

Anagrams

French

Pronunciation

Verb

Template:fr-verb-form

  1. (deprecated template usage) first-person singular past historic of manier

Anagrams

Italian

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin (deprecated template usage) mania.

Noun

mania f (plural manie)

  1. mania
  2. habit (if strange)
  3. quirk
  4. bug

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek (deprecated template usage) μανία (manía).

Noun

Lua error in Module:parameters at line 828: Parameter 2 is not used by this template.

  1. craze, mania, madness

Inflection

Template:la-decl-1st

Descendants

Template:mid2

Tahitian

Expression error: Unexpected < operator.[[Category:Foreign words of the day in Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language code; the value "2013" is not valid. See WT:LOL.]]Expression error: Unexpected < operator.

Pronunciation

Adjective

mania

  1. (deprecated template usage) (of the sea or weather) calm
  2. (deprecated template usage) (figuratively) serene, calm, tranquil, peaceful (state of mind)
  3. dull

References

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