maniaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Latin mania, from Ancient Greek μανία (manía, “madness”).

発音

• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈmeɪ.ni.ə/
• ハイフネーション: ma‧ni‧a
• 韻: -eɪniə

名詞

mania (countable and uncountable, plural manias)

1. Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity.
2. Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; fanaticism.
   • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIX, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 233:

     One of the manias of the present day, which especially excites my spleen, is the locomotive rage which seems to possess all ranks—that necessity of going out of town in the summer...

   • 2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist‎, volume 408, number 8845, archived from the original on 17 July 2020:

     Dotcom mania was slow in coming to higher education, but now it has the venerable industry firmly in its grip. Since the launch early last year of Udacity and Coursera, two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations.

   • 2018 October 16, John Blake, “When Americans tried to breed a better race: How a genetic fitness ‘crusade’ marches on”, in CNN‎:

     The eugenics mania that swept the country in the late 19th and early 20th centuries led to forced sterilizations and the passage of laws in 27 states designed to limit the numbers of those considered genetically unfit: immigrants, Jews, African-Americans, the mentally ill and those deemed “morally delinquent.”

3. (psychiatry) The state of abnormally elevated or irritable mood, arousal, and/or energy levels.
   • 2004 March, G. E. Berrios, “Of Mania: introduction (Classic text no. 57)”, in History of Psychiatry, number 15, →DOI, →PMID, pages 105–124:

派生語

関連する語

• dipsomania
• manic
• maniac
• megalomania

派生した語

• → Japanese: マニア

Further reading

• “mania”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

アナグラム

• Amina, Maina, amain, amnia, anima

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈma.ni.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈmaː.ni.a]

名詞

mania f (genitive maniae); first declension

1. craze, mania, madness

語形変化

First-declension noun.

派生した語

• Old Galician-Portuguese: manna
• Romanian: mânie
• → Italian: mania
• → Albanian: mëri, mëni — Gheg (disputed)
• → Catalan: mania
• → Danish: mani
• → Dutch: manie
• → English: mania
• → Finnish: mania
• → French: manie
• → German: Manie
• → Irish: máine
• → Norwegian: mani
• → Polish: mania
• → Portuguese: mania
• → Spanish: manía
• → Swedish: mani

語源 2

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈmaː.ni.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈmaː.ni.a]

形容詞

mānia

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of mānis

参照

• “mania”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "mania", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “mania”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “mania”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

接尾辞

-mania

1. compulsion or obsession.
2. A place where something can be found in great amounts.

使用する際の注意点

Often used with the interfix -o- to ease pronunciation.

派生語

関連する語

• -mane
• -maniac

参考

• mania
• maniac

アナグラム

• Amina, Maina, amain, amnia, anima