MANIA

n. 1 rage, craze, passion, obsession, compulsion, urge, fascination, preoccupation, furore or US furor, yearning, craving, desire, cacoethes, Colloq fad, yen By that time, the hula hoop mania had died down She has a mania for collecting apostle spoons. 2 madness, lunacy, insanity, dementia, derangement, hysteria, Technical manic disorder The psychiatrists diagnosed his problem as a mania