Meanings
- uncountableAn uncontrollable urge to complain.
He likes protests, all kinds. I think there's a scientific term for that: paramania.
1998, Debra Monroe, Newfangled: A Novel, →ISBN, page 2042 more examples
Diagnoses were listed primarily as variant forms of mania, e.g., acute, sub-acute, chronic, recurrent, and pure paramania
1982, The Nebraska Medical Journal, page 133Among the basic symptoms that he considered to be rather specific and permanent, he included four groups. The first was derived from dissociation of thinking (incoherence, condensation of ideas, tendency to stereotypic thinking, poverty of ideas and other thinking disorders); the second group was derived from inappropriate affect (absence of or blunted affect, paraphrenia and paramania); the third was derived from ambivalence (in sentiments, volition, and cognition); the fourth group comprised all the descriptive features of autism.
2012, Anthony Kales, Costas N. Stefanis, John A. Talbott, Recent Advances in Schizophrenia, →ISBN, pages 28–29
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