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Dictionary.com defines maniac as:

1. a raving or violently insane person; lunatic. 2. any intemperate or overly zealous or enthusiastic person: a maniac when it comes to details.

It gives the origin as being from the Middle Latin maniacus of, pertaining to madness.

As Related Words it lists lunatic, madman, and maniacal.

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