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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).

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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

Etymology

Either:

• Formed in English as mono- +? mania;
• From the French monomanie; or,
• From the Modern Latin monomania.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m?n???me?n??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?m?no??me?ni.?/
• Rhymes: -e?ni?

Noun

monomania (plural monomanias or monomaniæ)

1. Excessive interest or concentration on a singular object or subject.

   It was apparent to all but himself that what was once idle curiosity had become a monomania.

2. A pathological obsession with one person, thing or idea.

Quotations

• 1905 — Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Six Napoleons

  "There are no limits to the possibilities of monomania," I answered. "There is the condition which the modern French psychologists have called the 'idee fixe,' which may be trifling in character, and accompanied by complete sanity in every other way. A man who had read deeply about Napoleon, or who had possibly received some hereditary family injury through the great war, might conceivably form such an 'idee fixe' and under its influence be capable of any fantastic outrage."

Related terms

• monomaniac

Translations

See also

• idee fixe
• obsession

Finnish

Etymology

mono- +? -mania

Noun

monomania

1. monomania

Declension

Anagrams

• monomaani

Italian

Etymology

From mono- +? -mania.

Noun

monomania f (plural monomanie)

1. monomania

Related terms

• monomane

Anagrams

• annoiammo