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| mania |
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noun
- Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity.
- Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; fanaticism
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| manic-depressive |
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adjective - Exhibiting manic depression.
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| masochism |
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noun (uncountable)
- the enjoyment of receiving pain
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| mechanism |
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noun
- Within a machine or machinery; any mechanical means for the conversion or control of motion, or the transmission or control of power
- Any combination of cams, gears, links, belts, chains and logical mechanical elements
- A group of objects or parts that interact together. (Political machine)
- A mental, physical or chemical process.
- (philosophy) A theory that all natural phenomena can be explained by physical causes.
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| megalomania |
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noun
- A psychopathological condition characterized by delusional fantasies of wealth, power, or omnipotence.
- An obsession with grandiose or extravagant things or actions.
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| megalomaniac |
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noun
- One affected with or exhibiting megalomania
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| melancholia |
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noun
- clinical depression, characterised by irrational fears, guilt and apathy
- melancholy
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| melancholic |
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adjective
- filled with or affected by melancholy
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| melancholy |
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noun (melancholies)
- (obsolete) Great sadness or depression; gloom.
- (dated) black bile
adjective
- Affected with great sadness or depression.
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| mental |
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adjective
- of or relating to the mind or an intellectual process
- (anatomy) of or relating to the chin or median part of the lower jaw, genial
- (biology) of or relating to the chin-like or lip-like structure
- (context, colloquial, comparable) of or pertaining to a crazy person
- He is the most mental freshman I've seen yet.
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| mysophilia |
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noun
- A sexual dependency on something soiled or filthy, usually a kind of undergarment after use.
- 1963: National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis (U.S.), The Psychoanalytic Review, p272
- :While here filthiness is seemingly a consequence of the fear of being soiled, it is in our cases a consciously wished for situation which might be similar to within the psychosexual infantility.
- 1988: Dennis M. Dailey, The Sexually Unusual: Guide to Understanding and Helping, p17
- :Mysophilia, for example, can probably only be an erotic turn-on when it is possible for people to be clean, which is something that has been possible only in comparatively recent times.
- 2003: Richard W Roukema, MD, What Every Patient, Family, Friend, and Caregiver Needs to Know About Psychiatry, p133
- :These paraphilias include coprophilia (preoccupation with feces), urophilia (preoccupation with urine), (preoccupation with unclean surroundings)"
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| mythomania |
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noun
- a compulsion to tell lies and exaggerate the truth
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