different between delirium vs craze

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin d?l?rium (“derangement, madness”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: d?l??r??m
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d??l?.?i.?m/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /d??l??.i.?m/

Noun

delirium (countable and uncountable, plural deliriums or deliria)

1. (medicine) An 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.

   • The popular delirium [of the French Revolution] at first caught his enthusiastic mind.
2. Wild, frenzied excitement or ecstasy.

Related terms

Translations

References

• “delirium”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “delirium”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin d?l?rium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de??li?.ri.?m/
• Hyphenation: de?li?ri?um

Noun

delirium n (plural deliria or deliriums, diminutive deliriumpje n)

1. delirium

Synonyms

• delier

Latin

Etymology

From d?l?r? (“to deviate from a straight track; to be crazy or deranged”) +? -ium (nominal suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /de??li?.ri.um/, [d?e??li??i???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /de?li.ri.um/, [d???li??ium]

Noun

d?l?rium n (genitive d?l?ri? or d?l?r?); second declension

1. (medicine) Delirium, madness, frenzy.

   Synonyms: d?l?r?ti?, d?l?rit?s

Inflection

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Related terms

Descendants

References

• delirium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

delirium n (definite singular deliriet, indefinite plural delirier, definite plural deliria or deliriene)

1. a delirium

References

• “delirium” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

delirium n (definite singular deliriet, indefinite plural delirium, definite plural deliria)

1. a delirium

References

• “delirium” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

From Latin d?l?rium, from d?l?r? (“I am deranged”), from d? (“from, away from, out of”) + l?ra (“the earth thrown up between two furrows; a ridge, track, furrow”).

Noun

delirium n

1. delirium

Declension

Further reading

• delirium in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swedish

Noun

delirium n

1. delirium

Declension

English

Alternative forms

• crase, craise, craize (dialectal)

Etymology

From Middle English crasen (“to crush, break, break to pieces, shatter, craze”), from Old Norse *krasa (“to shatter”), ultimately imitative.

Cognate with Danish krase (“to crack, crackle”), Swedish krasa (“to crack, crackle”), Norwegian krasa (“to shatter, crush”), Icelandic krasa (“to crackle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?e?z/
• Rhymes: -e?z

Noun

craze (plural crazes)

1. (archaic) craziness; insanity.
2. A strong habitual desire or fancy.
3. A temporary passion or infatuation, as for some new amusement, pursuit, or fashion; a fad
   • 2012, Alan Titchmarsh, The Complete Countryman: A User's Guide to Traditional Skills and Lost Crafts

     Winemaking was a huge craze in the 1970s, when affordable package holidays to the continent gave people a taste for winedrinking, but the recession made it hard to afford off-license prices back home.

4. (ceramics) A crack in the glaze or enamel caused by exposure of the pottery to great or irregular heat.

Derived terms

• becraze
• crazy

Translations

Verb

craze (third-person singular simple present crazes, present participle crazing, simple past and past participle crazed)

1. (archaic) To weaken; to impair; to render decrepit.
2. To derange the intellect of; to render insane.
   • 1663, John Tillotson, The Wisdom of being Religious

     any man […] that is crazed and out of his wits
3. To be crazed, or to act or appear as one that is crazed; to rave; to become insane.
4. (transitive, intransitive, archaic) To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See crase.
5. (transitive, intransitive) To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery.

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References

Anagrams

• Rezac