Lunacy vs Mania - What's the difference?
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(of a person or group of people) The state of being mad, insanity
# a cyclical mental disease, apparently linked to the lunar phases
# insanity implying legal irresponsibility.
Something deeply misguided.
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.
Lunacy is a related term of mania.
As a noun lunacy
is (of a person or group of people) the state of being mad, insanity.As a proper noun mania is
(roman mythology) the goddess of the dead and ghosts.lunacy
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* (state of being mad) insanityDerived terms
* lunaticmania
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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.}}