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Synonyms for craze

Most common

madness mania frenzy hysteria rage fad air du temps infatuation

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    A strong habitual desire or fancy.

  2. n. 2

    A temporary passion or infatuation, as for some new amusement, pursuit, or fashion; a fad.

Related words

Word family
crazy
Other spellings
craise craize

Forms

Plural
crazes → manias, frenzies, hysteriae, madnesses…

Example sentences

  • madness Though this be madness, yet there is method in it.
  • mania Something about big cities triggers mania in me.
  • frenzy There was no cowing him when the frenzy was on him.
  • hysteria Tom doesn't know the difference between passion and hysteria.
  • rage My father flew into a rage when he found that out.
  • fad They don't want to admit that it's really a passing fad.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
crazerising
madnessrising
maniarising
frenzyrising
hysteriarising
ragerising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters
bug1, fad1
4 letters
rage1, cult1, fury2, rave1
5 letters
fancy2, freak1, mania3, furor2
6 letters
frenzy2, lunacy3, furore
7 letters
passion2, madness2
8 letters
insanity4, hysteria4, delirium4, crotchet
11 letters
distraction3, infatuation5

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (fury2 = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français
craquelure