-mania
suff.(后缀)
语源
suff.(后缀)
- An exaggerated desire or enthusiasm for:
…狂:对…具有过分的渴求或热情:
balletomania.
芭蕾舞狂
语源
- From mania
源自 mania
-mania
combining form in countable noun
indicating extreme desire or pleasure of a specified kind or an abnormal excitement aroused by something
⇒
kleptomania
⇒
nymphomania
⇒
pyromania
Origin
from mania-mania
1
a combining form of mania (megalomania); extended to mean “enthusiasm, often of an extreme and transient nature,” for that specified by the initial element (bibliomania).
Related Words
- agromania
- balletomane
- bibliomania
- cleptomania
- decalcomania
- dipsomania
-maniaa suffixal use of mania (as in megalomania), extended to mean exaggerated desire or love for, as in balletomania.
-mania
combining form
- Psychology denoting a specified type of mental abnormality or obsession【精神病学】表示“…狂”, “…癖”:
-
kleptomania.
- ■ denoting extreme enthusiasm or admiration表示“…迷”:
-
Beatlemania.
派生词
-maniac combining form
in corresponding nouns
[用于相应的名词]。
1788 Trifler No. 8. 104'Till the wide Nugae-mania spread.
1792 Coleridge Lett. (1895) I. 35,I never had the scribble⁓mania stronger on me than for these last three or four days.
1815 (title), [ W. H. Ireland] Scribbleomania.
1820 Southey in Life &Corr. (1850) V. 53The Queenomania will probably die away ere long.
1837 Blackw. Mag. XLI. 848During all the late fury of land-jobbing schemes in the west, of building extravagances in the east, of banco⁓mania everywhere,..the cotton manufacture alone remains unscathed.
1855 Maurice Learn. & Work. 254This..would be a fair representation of the motives and arguments which created the Roman Graiophobia. And the Roman Graio⁓mania in the young men will have had as intelligible an explanation.
1860 Ld. Derby inLd. Malmesbury'sMem. (1884) II. 213His Italomania and his Free Trade policy.
ORIGIN: formed as mania .
-mania
Suffix
- compulsion or obsession.
Etymology
See mania.
Usage notes
Often used with the interfix -o- to ease pronunciation.