Delirium
[dɪ'lɪrɪəm]
Definition
(noun.) a usually brief state of excitement and mental confusion often accompanied by hallucinations.
Typist: Shelby--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) Strong excitement; wild enthusiasm; madness.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Wandering (as in fevers), incoherence, hallucination, derangement, insanity, frenzy, raving, madness, alienation of mind.
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Examples
- And I mentioned the time at which his delirium came on? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The thoughtless riot, dissipation, and debauchery of his younger days produced fever and delirium. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- But this was the verge of delirium . Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Well, I had reached a section of my book, at that time, which touched on this same question of delirium. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- On this, the disconnected words, and fragments of sentences, which had dropped from Mr. Candy in his delirium, appeared as follows: . Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- In a moment she relapsed into the delirium of fanaticism, and, but that her gentle nature forbade, would have loaded me with execrations. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Hour after hour passed away in sleepless pain and delirium on Marianne's side, and in the most cruel anxiety on Elinor's, before Mr. Harris appeared. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- At first Tarzan would eat nothing, but rolled and tossed in a wild delirium of fever. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- What delight, what delight in strength, what delirium of pleasure! D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She had awaited him in a faint delirium of nervous torture. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- To her it was so beautiful, it was a delirium, she wanted to gather the glowing, eternal peaks to her breast, and die. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- That I was lost in blissful delirium. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- It could not be delirium. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- He endeavoured to soothe me as a nurse does a child, and reverted to my tale as the effects of delirium. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- For three days he was in delirium, and Tarzan sat beside him and bathed his head and hands and washed his wounds. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
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