Disorder vs Mania - What's the difference?
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Absence of order; state of not being arranged in an orderly manner.
A disturbance of civic peace or of public order.
(medicine) A physical or psychical malfunction.
Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity.
Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; fanaticism.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (psychiatry) The state of abnormally elevated or irritable mood, arousal, and/or energy levels.
Disorder is a related term of mania.
As a noun disorder
is absence of order; state of not being arranged in an orderly manner.As a proper noun mania is
(roman mythology) the goddess of the dead and ghosts.disorder
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Alternative forms
* disordre (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- After playing the children left the room in disorder .
- The class was thrown into disorder when the teacher left the room
- The army tried to prevent disorder when claims the elections had been rigged grew stronger.
- Bulimia is an eating disorder .
Synonyms
* (absence of order) chaos, entropy; see also * (disturbance of civic peace) See alsoDerived terms
* autism spectrum disorder * borderline personality disorder * disordely * eating disorder * seasonal affective disorder * spectrum disordermania
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(wikipedia mania)Noun
(en noun)The attack of the MOOCs, passage=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.}}