Delirium

Noun

 * 1) 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.

Adjectives for Delirium
mad; tossing; restless; extreme; raving; emotional;  critical;  blissful;   confused; terrible; dreamy; prolonged; fierce; maniacal; insane.

Verbs for Delirium
break out into—; characterize—; dance in—; excite to—; haunt—; indicate—; induce—; murmur in—; produce—; quake with—; rave in—; seize with—; stimulate to—; suffer—; tremble with—; wander in—; —attacks; —exhausts; —impairs; —occurs.

Synonyms for Delirium
madness, mania, raving, wandering, lunacy, aberration, frenzy, dementia, insanity, hallucination.

Antonyms for Delirium
sanity, normality, reason, saneness, steadiness, regularity.

Thesaurus
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, 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,

Etymology
From the delirium:, from deliro:.

Related terms

 * deliracy
 * delirament
 * delirancy
 * delirant
 * delirate


 * delirating
 * deliration
 * delire
 * deliring
 * delirement


 * deliriant
 * deliriate
 * delirifacient
 * delirious
 * deliriously


 * deliriousness
 * delirium tremens
 * delirous
 * delirousness
 * deliry

Translations

 * Armenian: ,
 * Asturian: deliriu
 * Basque:, zoraldi, zorabio
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: houretila
 * French:
 * German:, Fieberphantasie, Taumel
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: טירוף
 * Hungarian:


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: せん妄
 * Polish: majaczenie ,
 * Portuguese: delírio
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,  горячка
 * Scottish Gaelic: breisleach, boile , mearan , bruaillean
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish: sayıklama

Etymology
From deliro:, from de: + lira:.

Noun

 * 1) delirium, madness, frenzy
 * 2) * c. 47 , Aulus Cornelius Celsus, De Medicina, 2.7.28
 * aut qui febre aeque non quiescente simul et delirio et spirandi difficultate vexatur
 * or when, likewise without the fever subsiding, he is distressed at once by delirium and difficulty in breathing

Synonyms

 * dēlīrātiō, dēlīritās

Related terms

 * dēlīrāmentum
 * dēlīrātiō
 * dēlīritās


 * dēlīrō
 * dēlīrus

Descendants

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 * English:
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 * German:
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 * Kurdish:
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Etymology
From delirium:, from deliro:, from de: + lira:.

Noun

 * 1) delirium

Noun
delirium


 * 1) delirium