About The Word Delirium
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Delirium Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Delirium?
[n] a usually brief state of excitement and mental confusion often accompanied by hallucinations
[n] state of violent mental agitation Synonyms | Synonyms for Delirium: craze | frenzy | fury | hysteria Related Terms | Find terms related to Delirium: abandon | afebrile delirium | agnosia | apparition | ardor | block | blocking | brainchild | brainstorm | bubble | calenture | childbed fever | chimera | continued fever | craze | deliriousness | delusion | delusion of persecution | disorientation | ecstasy | eidolon | enthusiasm | eruptive fever | fancy | fantasque | fantasy | febricity | febrility | fervor | fever | fever heat | feverishness | fiction | figment | fire | fire and fury | flight of ideas | flush | frenzy | furor | furore | fury | hallucination | hallucinosis | heat | hectic | hectic fever | hectic flush | hyperpyrexia | hyperthermia | hysteria | idle fancy | illusion | imagery | imagination | imagining | incoherence | insubstantial image | intermittent fever | intoxication | invention | lingual delirium | madness | maggot | make-believe | mental block | mental confusion | myth | nihilism | nihilistic delusion | orgasm | orgy | paralogia | passion | phantasm | phantom | protein fever | psychological block | puerperal fever | pyrexia | rage | ranting | rapture | raving | ravishment | relapsing fever | remittent | remittent fever | romance | sick fancy | tearing passion | thick-coming fancies | towering rage | transport | trip | urethral fever | vaccinal fever | vapor | vision | wandering | water fever | whim | whimsy | wildest dreams | wound fever | zeal See Also | disturbance | folie | mania | manic disorder | mental disorder | mental disturbance | nympholepsy | psychological disorder Delirium In Webster's Dictionary \De*lir"i*um\, n. [L., fr. delirare to rave, to wander
in mind, prop., to go out of the furrow in plowing; de- +
lira furrow, track; perh. akin to G. geleise track, rut, and
E. last to endure.]
1. (Med.) A state in which the thoughts, expressions, and
actions are wild, irregular, and incoherent; mental
aberration; a roving or wandering of the mind, -- usually
dependent on a fever or some other disease, and so
distinguished from mania, or madness.
2. Strong excitement; wild enthusiasm; madness.
The popular delirium [of the French Revolution] at
first caught his enthusiastic mind. --W. Irving.
The delirium of the preceding session (of
Parliament). --Morley.
{Delirium tremens}. [L., trembling delirium] (Med.), a
violent delirium induced by the excessive and prolonged
use of intoxicating liquors.
{Traumatic delirium} (Med.), a variety of delirium following
injury.
Syn: Insanity; frenzy; madness; derangement; aberration;
mania; lunacy; fury. See {Insanity}.
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