paramania

An uncontrollable urge to complain.

Noun

  1. An uncontrollable urge to complain.
    • 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 133:
    • He likes protests, all kinds. I think there's a scientific term for that: paramania. - 1998, Debra Monroe, Newfangled: A Novel, →ISBN, page 204:
    • Among 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...

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