| agromania | (noun) an intense desire to be alone or out in the open | - |
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| balletomania | (noun) extraordinary enthusiasm for ballets | - |
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| banian | (noun) a loose fitting jacket; originally worn in India | Synonyms: banyan |
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| (noun) East Indian tree that puts out aerial shoots that grow down into the soil forming additional trunks | Synonyms: banian tree, banyan, banyan tree, East Indian fig tree, Ficus bengalensis, Indian banyan |
| bibliomania | (noun) preoccupation with the acquisition and possession of books | - |
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| craniate | (noun) animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium | Synonyms: vertebrate |
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| decalcomania | (noun) the art of transferring designs from specially prepared paper to a wood or glass or metal surface | - |
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| (noun) either a design that is fixed to some surface or a paper bearing the design which is to be transferred to the surface | Synonyms: decal |
| dipsomania | (noun) an intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess | Synonyms: alcoholism, potomania |
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| dipsomaniac | (noun) a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually | Synonyms: alcoholic, alky, boozer, lush, soaker, souse |
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| egomania | (noun) an intense and irresistible love for yourself and concern for your own needs | - |
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| egomaniac | (noun) an abnormally egotistical person | - |
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| gazania | (noun) any plant of the genus Gazania valued for their showy daisy flowers | - |
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| hemicrania | (noun) a severe recurring vascular headache; occurs more frequently in women than men | Synonyms: megrim, migraine, sick headache |
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| kleptomania | (noun) an irresistible impulse to steal in the absence of any economic motive | - |
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| kleptomaniac | (noun) someone with an irrational urge to steal in the absence of an economic motive | - |
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| laniard | (noun) (nautical) a line used for extending or fastening rigging on ships | Synonyms: lanyard |
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| (noun) a cord worn around the neck to hold a knife or whistle | Synonyms: lanyard |
| (noun) a cord with an attached hook that is used to fire certain types of cannon | Synonyms: lanyard |
| leishmaniasis | (noun) sores resulting from a tropical infection by protozoa of the genus Leishmania which are spread by sandflies | Synonyms: kala azar, leishmaniosis |
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| logomania | (noun) pathologically excessive (and often incoherent) talking | Synonyms: logorrhea |
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| mania | (noun) an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action | Synonyms: cacoethes, passion |
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| (noun) a mood disorder; an affective disorder in which the victim tends to respond excessively and sometimes violently | Synonyms: manic disorder |
| maniac | (noun) an insane person | Synonyms: lunatic |
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| (noun) a person who has an obsession with or excessive enthusiasm for something | - |
| megalomania | (noun) a psychological state characterized by delusions of grandeur | - |
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| megalomaniac | (noun) a pathological egotist | - |
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| monomania | (noun) a mania restricted to one thing or idea | Synonyms: possession |
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| monomaniac | (noun) a person suffering from monomania | - |
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| necromania | (noun) an irresistible sexual attraction to dead bodies | Synonyms: necrophilia, necrophilism |
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| nymphomania | (noun) abnormally intense sexual desire in women | - |
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| nymphomaniac | (noun) a woman with abnormal sexual desires | Synonyms: nympho |
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| onomatomania | (noun) obsession with a particular word which the person uses repeatedly or which intrudes into consciousness | - |
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| phaneromania | (noun) an irresistible desire to pick at superficial body parts (as in obsessive nail-biting) | - |
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| potomania | (noun) an intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess | Synonyms: alcoholism, dipsomania |
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| pyromania | (noun) an uncontrollable desire to set fire to things | - |
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| pyromaniac | (noun) a person with a mania for setting things on fire | - |
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| sesbania | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Sesbania having pinnate leaves and large showy pea-like flowers | - |
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| squandermania | (noun) prodigious squandering (usually by a government) | - |
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| titania | (noun) a white powder used as a pigment for its high covering power and durability | Synonyms: titanic oxide, titanium dioxide, titanium oxide |
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| trichotillomania | (noun) an irresistible urge to pull out your own hair | - |
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