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• It remains to be seen whether the current valuations in certain sectors will turn out to be a tulip mania.From the entry tulip mania
• Over the days that follow Andrew's party, the craigslisting mania from our potential seller does not abate.2009, Mary Elizabeth Williams, Gimme Shelter, page 207. From the entry craigslist
• The score is also a reminder of what fueled Morgan’s shopping mania, uncurbable and lifelong.2009 April 17, Holland Cotter, “J. P. Morgan’s Shopaholic Approach to Art Collecting Gets an Update”, in New York Times. From the entry uncurbable
• Launched on the wave of Pokémania was Viz's four-part manga The Electric Tale of Pikachu.2009, Jason S. Yadao, The Rough Guide to Manga, Rough Guides, →ISBN, page 48. From the entry Pokémania
• This "incarceration mania" has received, for some time now, much critical attention in the media.2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, Illusion of Order. From the entry penal-industrial complex
• Witch-hunting became a mania, with all the abuses and excesses which invariably develop with fanaticism.1965, Attila Zohar, Kings Cross Black Magic, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 88. From the entry fanaticism
• However, more work is needed to determine whether methylation in this locus is involved in the etiopathology of mania.2015 July 6, “Association of DNA Methylation with Acute Mania and Inflammatory Markers”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry etiopathology
• Look, I understand the current Seahawks mania.2015 October 10, “Take 2: Why I'm still a Mariners fan first amid the sea of Seahawks fans in Seattle”, in The Seattle Times, Seattle…. From the entry frontrunneritis
• They might quit annoying us with their Santa Claus-mas mania.2012 November 28, T.C. Streff, “‘Tricky Turkmas’ could appease shoppers, stores”, in The Daily Sentinel, volume 120, number 9, Grand…. From the entry Santa Claus-mas
• Wilson ’s full-grown flatulent Führer in “Winnie and Wolf” — with their telltale mania for purity, order and efficiency.2009 March 8, David Gates, “The Monster in the Mirror”, in New York Times. From the entry excretorily
• Auder’s obsessive videomaking prefigures the relentless narcissism of our current self-publishing mania, but there’s artfulness to his seemingly unmediated recording.2009 March 18, Nathan Lee, “A Life Videotaping Life Has Become a Movie”, in New York Times. From the entry videomaking
• Though distinctly restrained, Sethi’s prose evokes the comic mislocutions of Jonathan Safran Foer and the vertiginous mania of Zadie Smith.2009 July 26, “Fiction Chronicle”, in New York Times. From the entry mislocution
• Good deal of authentic mania, there, black and blue wit, pain—the fellow going on to fresh defeats, flappable, flappable.1973, John Berryman, Recovery, Macmillan, →ISBN. From the entry flappable
• A woman everlastingly sole-sitting, not on the shore of old romance, but on the brink of hysterical mania.1904, Thomas Pinkerton, Sun beetles: a comedy in nickname land, page 170. From the entry salonical
• In the midst of Expo ’88 mania, everyone sported clothing emblazoned with splashy images of Sydney Harbour Bridge, koalas and Australiana chic.2018 June 1, Alana Schetzer, “Australiana 2.0: how cultural cringe became cool”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry Australiana
• Even in Japan, there has been no weakening of DBZ mania, despite the fact that it's almost nine years since the series ended.2004, Satoshi Ikeda, Martin Foster, The Dragon Ball Z Legend: The Quest Continues, page 12. From the entry DBZ
• Teachers, who had vivid memories of the temporary insanity of POGS a few years earlier, said they'd never seen a craze to rival Pokémania.2001, Kathleen McDonnell, Honey, We Lost the Kids: Re-thinking Childhood in the Multimedia Age, Second Story Press, →ISBN, page 97. From the entry Pokémania
• Every age has its own brand of folly and ridicule; in literature, we have already witnessed (and perhaps given too much aid to) many manias.1996, Charles-Auguste Sainte-Beuve, “Industrial Literature (1839)”, in Rosemary Lloyd, transl., Revolutions in Writing: Readings in…. From the entry mysticity
• It is a pity he did not live to witness this mass mania, because in many ways, it was a triumph of pure Forteanism.1957, Martin Gardner, “Flying Saucers”, in Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science, 2nd rev. and exp. edition, Mineola, N.Y.: Dover…. From the entry fortean
• They call him Carl, and he has a regular mania for collecting toads and bugs and frogs and bringing them into the house.1919 Lucy Maud Montgomery, Rainbow Valley, 1st World Publishing (2007), page 19. From the entry carl
• Ursicidal mania was his complaint; so at least the white bear was led to believe when his coloured friend suddenly opened an attack on him.1901 March 8, “Notes and News”, in The Daily News, London, →OCLC, page 4, column 7. From the entry ursicidal
• Rapid expansion of Britain's transport network during the 'railway mania' of the 19th century meant that the testing of engineering principles often played catch-up to the ambitions of progress.2021 March 24, Dr. Joseph Brennan, “Metallic marvels from rail's Iron Age”, in RAIL, number 927, page 57. From the entry catch-up
• Thus did my landlady see me off into the grey morning, replete with fried bread and the blunt logistics of her pachydermal mania ('Got first twenty-nine years back.2012, Tim Moore, You Are Awful (But I Like You): Travels Through Unloved Britain. From the entry pachydermal
• Bipolar disorder is diagnosed if your child experiences a manic or mixed episode or recurring episodes of both mania and depression that cannot be accounted for by other causes.2008, Tracy Anglada, Sheryl Hakala, Childhood Bipolar Disorder Answer Book, page 32. From the entry bipolar disorder
• And all the while that this agonized questioning went on within him, he talked flippantly to Conrad, enraging the cross-grained doorkeeper to the point of homicidal mania.1922, Agatha Christie, “Chapter 16”, in The Secret Adversary. From the entry cross-grained
• Still, Ailes had been observing politicians for decades, and in his long career he had witnessed just about every type and style and oddity and confection and cravenness and mania.2018, Michael Wolff, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, New York: Henry Holt and Company, page 3. From the entry cravenness
• The early days of the epidemic had been a time of ebullition or ebullience, pathologically speaking, full of movements and tics, impulsions and impetuosities, manias and crises, ardencies and appetencies.1973, Oliver Sacks, “The Aftermath of the Sleeping Sickness (1927–67)”, in Awakenings, London: Duckworth, →ISBN; republished New York…. From the entry ebullience
• Occasionally the French mania for showing off the talent they do not possess leads to still more amusing linguistic comedies — for instance, that case of the pseudo-English verb, flirter.1914, Rollin Lynde Hartt, Understanding the French, page 132. From the entry pseudo-English
• "Someone told me just now that he is a bit touched on the subject of lawyers, that he has a mania for making speeches and intends to pass the examinations.1913, Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by Eva M. Martin, The Idiot, Part III, Chapter IV. From the entry touched

Meaning of mania

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

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Questions about mania in a sentence

How do you use mania in a sentence?

Mania is used as a noun. For example: “It remains to be seen whether the current valuations in certain sectors will turn out to be a tulip mania.”

What is a short sentence with mania?

“Look, I understand the current Seahawks mania.”

What does mania mean?

Mania means violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity.