Sunday 21 April 2013

Maniomania



Maniomania: noun. An individual’s love of any mania. The word, though not too usable in this form, can be put into a sentence by referring to one who suffers from maniomania as a maniomaniac or by converting the noun into a different noun, adjective or verb, for example in the sentence: “The maniomaniac looked maniomanically at the maniomaniacal maniomanioc,” roughly translating to: “The person who indulges himself in any mania looked like a person who indulges himself in any mania at the mania-loving cassava root.” Maniomania was first described by Sigmund Freud after one of his maniomaniacal patients hugged a kleptomaniac to death. By publishing a study on this behaviour, Freud made up for the money he lost in the court trial after the event. 

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