Delirium

Quick meaning: Delirium is a noun meaning Wild, frenzied excitement or ecstasy.

Meaning

Wild, frenzied excitement or ecstasy.

More Meanings

1. (medicine) A temporary mental state with a sudden onset, usually reversible, including symptoms of confusion, inability to concentrate, disorientation, anxiety, and sometimes hallucinations. Causes can include dehydration, drug intoxication, and severe infection.

Example Sentences

the delirium of the preceding session (of Parliament)

The popular delirium [of the French Revolution] at first caught his enthusiastic mind.

Better to decay in absolute delirium, than to be the victim of the methodical unreason of ill-bestowed love.

The evening wore away, and the long grass was silvery with dew; the consequence was what might have been expected,—next day, he was laid up with a violent cold; and the fever soon ran so high, that delirium came on; and before three days were past, his life hung upon a thread.

Word Forms

• deliriums
• deliria

Synonyms for delirium

Depending on context, synonyms include hysteria, frenzy, craze, fury.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hysteria, craze, frenzy, fury, paranoia, wild.

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