excessive excitement or enthusiasm; craze

The country has a mania for soccer.

Psychiatry . manic disorder.

noun

aberration , ax to grind * , bee * , bee in bonnet , bug * , bug in ear , compulsion , craving , craze , craziness , delirium , dementia , derangement , desire , disorder , enthusiasm , fad , fancy , fascination , fetish , fixed idea , frenzy , furor , grabber , hang-up * , ide fixe , infatuation , insanity , lunacy , monomania , obsession , on the brain , partiality , passion , preoccupation , rage , thing , tiger * , tiger by the tail , fixation , brainsickness , disturbance , insaneness , madness , mental illness , psychopathy , unbalance , addiction , cacoethes , craziness. insanity , fear , hangup , hysteria