Manias and ObsessionsThese words are the ones found in major dictionaries; no doubt there are many others, given that, like phobias, manias are easy to from by taking a root word from Latin or Greek and affixing the suffix ‘mania’.

Word DefinitionAblutomanina Mania for washing oneselfAboulomania Pathological indecisivenessAgromanina Intense desire to be in open spacesAndromanina An obsession with menAnglomania Craze or obsession with England and the EnglishAnthomania Obsession with flowersAphrodisiomania Abnormal sexual interestArithmomania Obsessive preoccupation with numbersBalletomania Craze for books or readingBruxomania Compulsion for grinding teethCacodemomania Pathological belief that one is inhabited by an evil spiritCatapedamania Obsession with jumping from high placesChinamania Obsession with collecting chinaChoreomania Dancing mania or frenzyClinomania Excessive desire to stay in bedCopromania Obsession with fecesCytheromania NymphomaniaDacnomania Obsession with killingDemonomania Pathological belief that one is possessed demonsDinomania Mania for dancingDipsomania Abnormal craving for alcoholDiscomania Obsession for disco musicDoramania Obsession with owning fursDoromania Obsession with giving giftsDrapetomania Intense desire to run away from homeDromomania Compulsive longing for travelEcdemomania Abnormal compulsion for wanderingEgomania Irrational self-centered attitude or self-worshipEeleutheromania Manic desire for freedomEmpleomania Mania for holding public officeEnosimania Pathological belief that one has sinnedEngheomania Abnormal belief that one is divinely inspiredEpoania Craze for writing epicsErgasiomania Excessive desire to work; ergomaniaErgomania Excessive desire to work; workabholismErotomania Abnormally powerful sex driveEtheromania Craving for etherEthomania Obsessive devotion to one’s own peopleEulogomania Obsessive craze for floggingFlorimania Craze for flowersFrancomania Craze or obsession with France and the FrenchGallomania Craze or obsession with France and the FrenchGamomania Obsession with issuing odd marriage proposals

Graecomania Obsession with Greece and the GreeksGraphomania Obsession with writingGynaecomania Abnormal sexual obsession with womenHabromania Insanity featuring cheerful delusionsHagiomania Mania for sainthoodHellenomania Obsession with Greece and the Greeks; GraecomaniaHexametermania Mania for writing in hexameterHieromania Pathological religious visions or delusionsHippomania Obsession with horsesHydromania Irrational craving for waterHylomania Excessive tendency towards materialismHypermania Severe maniaHypomania Minor maniaHysteromania NymphomaniaIconomania Obsession with icons or portraitsIdolomania Obsession or devotion to idolsInfomania Excessive devotion to accumulating factsIslomania Craze or obsession for islandsItalomania Obsession with Italy or ItaliansKleptomania Irrational predilection for stealingKlopemania KleptomaniaLogomania Pathological loquacityLypemania Extreme pathological mournfulnessMacromania Delusion that objects are larger than natural sizeMegalomania Abnormal tendency towards grand or grandiose behaviourMelomania Craze for musicMethomania Morbid craving for alcoholMetromania Insatiable desire for writing verseMicromania Pathological self-deprecation or belief that one is very smallMonomania Abnormal obsession with a single thought or ideasMorphinomania Habitual craving or desire for morphineMusomania Obsession with musicMythomania Lying or exaggerating to an abnormal extentNarcromania Uncontrollable craving for narcoticsNecromania Sexual obsession with dead bodies; necrophilaNosomania Delusion of suffering from diseaseNostomania Abnormal desire to go back to familiar placesNymphomania Excessive or crazed sexual desireOenomania Obsession or craze for wineOligomania Obsession with a few thoughts or ideasOniomania Mania for making purchasesOnomamania Mania for namesOnomatomania Irresistible desire to repeat certain wordsOnychotillomania Compulsive picking at the fingernailsOpiomania Craving for opiumOpsomania Abnormal love for one kind of foodOrchidomania Abnormal obsession with orchidsParouciamania Obsession with the second coming of ChristPathomania Moral insanity

Peotillomania Abnormal compulsion for pulling on the penisPhagomania Excessive desire for food or eatingPhaneromania Habit of biting one’s nails Pharmacomania Abnormal obsession with trying drugsPhonomania Pathological tendency to murderPhotomania Pathological desire for lightPhyllomania Excessive or abnormal production of leavesPhytomania Obsession with collecting plantsPlanomania Abnormal desire to wander and disobey social normsPlutomania Mania for moneyPolemomania Mania for warPoliticomania Mania for politicsPolkamania Craze for polka dancingPolymania Mania affecting several different mental facultiesPoriomania Abnormal compulsion to wanderPornomania Obsession with pornographyPotichomania Craze for imitating Oriental porcelainPotomania Abnormal desire to drink alcoholPseudomania Irrational predilection for lyingPteridomania Passion for fernsPyromania Craze for starting firesRhinotillexomania Compulsive nose pickingRinkomania Obsession with skatingSatyromania Abnormally great male sexual desire; satyriasisScribbleomania Obsession with scribblingSebastomania Religious insanitySitiomania Morbid aversion to foodSophomania Delusion that one is incredibly intelligentSquandermania Irrational propensity for sending money wastefullyStampomania Obsession with stamp-collectingSyphilomania Pathological belief that one is afflicted with syphilisTechnomania Craze for technologyTeutomania Obsession with Teutonic or German thingsThanatomania Belief that one has been affected by death magic, and

resulting illnessTheatromania Craze of going to playsTheoania Belief that one is a godTimbromania Craze for stamp collectingTomomania Irrational predilection for performing surgeryToxicomania Morbid craving for poisonsTrichotillomania Neurosis where patient pulls out own hairTulipomania Obsession with tulipsTyphomania Delirious state resulting from typhus feverTypomania Craze for printing one’s lucubrationUranomania Obsession with the idea of divinityVerbomania Craze for wordsXenomania Inordinate attachment to foreign thingsZoomania Insane fondness for animals