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Idioms ( Mania )

Mania (Excessive desire about something )

  • Agromania -to be alone or out in the open
  • Anthomania- flowers
  • Bibliomania - book collection
  • Cynomania - Dogs
  • Demomania - Crowd
  • Dromomania - travelling
  • Dipsomania - Alcohol
  • Entheomania - Religion
  • Hedomania - Pleasure
  • Hippomania - Horses
  • Kleptomania- stealing things
  • Logomania - talking
  • Megalomania -controlling other's life
  • Melomania - music
  • Mythomania - Telling lies
  • Nostomania - home
  • Phagemania - rich eating
  • Plutomania - wealth
  • Poriomania - travelling
  • Pyromania - set things on fire
  • Sitomania - eating
  • Verbomania - talking
  • Xenomania - Foreigners/foreign things
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