mania(STRONG INTEREST)disapproving

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

fashion
fashionFashion trends for the season include light, cool fabrics.
styleA crisp navy suit will always be in style.
trendThe trend is now to wear skirts longer.
fadLet's hope this obsession with celebrity lifestyles is just a fad.
crazeCycling shorts were the latest craze that year.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Passionate or passing interests
centrism
craze for something
cult
cultish
cultishly
dalliance with something
drug
eat, sleep, and breathe somethingidiom
fad
faddish
faddism
fancy
geekery
infatuated
infatuated with someone
kick
mania
passion
passion project
someone's ruling passionidiom

craze | American Dictionary

craze
noun[ Cusually sing ]
us/kreɪz/
an activity, style, or fashion that is very popular, usually for a short time:
Cycling shorts were the craze that year.

Examples of craze

craze
Horizontal bedding strata are crazed with minute shear fractures then stained by seeping iron oxide in solution.
The craze for ballooning is a case in point.
With a despair so terrifyingly reasonable, she cannot be thought irrationally crazed, open to antifeminist ridicule.
Young people looking for fun and escape identified above all with dance crazes like the twist, hully-gully, surf and shake.
Julian stumbles through the streets crazed with despair.
There was a time around '60 or '61 when there was this craze of building nuclear fallout shelters.
The bicycle craze of the 1890s was made possible in part because rubber pneumatic tires replaced solid tires, making bicycle riding more comfortable and popular.
It was a new scientific discourse, but phrenology was also a public rage, a sweeping fad, a craze.
The dance craze, forbidden alcohol, and movies gathered national attention.
Many of the popular music styles that emerged during the twentieth century were accompanied by dance crazes.
Alternatively, the current craze for micro-foundations might be viewed as a thoroughgoing rejection of grand theory.
The ban calmed the craze, but at the same time it left many students who were used to the tutoring feeling lost.
This essay and others that followed show no craze for archives and the piecing together of the broken past.
Focusing on the 1920-1925 period his reading thoroughly confirms the existence of a "craze" for psychoanalysis which attracted much popular attention and debate.
All in all, our assessment of progress in multi-agent systems since the agents craze is a rather gloomy one.
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