Mania vs Hallucination - What's the difference?
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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.
A sensory perception of something that does not exist, often arising from disorder of the nervous system, as in delirium tremens; a delusion.
:* Hallucinations are always evidence of cerebral derangement and are common phenomena of insanity. -
The act of hallucinating; a wandering of the mind; an error, mistake or blunder.
:* This must have been the hallucination of the transcriber. -
Mania is a related term of hallucination.
As a proper noun mania
is (roman mythology) the goddess of the dead and ghosts.As a noun hallucination is
a sensory perception of something that does not exist, often arising from disorder of the nervous system, as in delirium tremens; a delusion.mania
English
(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.}}