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embarrassment
English
Etymology
From embarrass +? -ment
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?m?bæ??sm?nt/
Noun
embarrassment (countable and uncountable, plural embarrassments)
- A state of discomfort arising from bashfulness or consciousness of having violated a social rule; humiliation.
- A person or thing which is the cause of humiliation to another.
- Kevin, you are an embarrassment to this family.
- Losing this highly publicized case was an embarrassment to the firm.
- A large collection of good or valuable things, especially one that exceeds requirements.
- 1914, Collier's, page 30
- There are over 5,000 Americans now in Paris, many artists, singers, musicians, writers, and actors, so many, indeed, the committee could hardly pick a program from an embarrassment of volunteers.
- 1996, David Morgan Evans, Peter Salway, David Thackray, The Remains of Distant Times: Archaeology and the National Trust, Boydell & Brewer ?ISBN, page 188
- The landscape presented an embarrassment of riches for the industrial archaeologist, and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century remains were still visible in abundance
- 2013, Frank Boccia, The Crouching Beast: A United States Army Lieutenant's Account of the Battle for Hamburger Hill, May 1969, McFarland ?ISBN, page 256
- At one time, I reflected, we'd had an embarrassment of good, qualified squad leader—ready men in the platoon.
- 1914, Collier's, page 30
- A state of confusion; hesitation; uncertainty
- (medicine) Impairment of function due to disease: respiratory embarrassment.
- (dated) Difficulty in financial matters; poverty.
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
- embarrassment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- embarrassment in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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delirium
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)
- (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.
- 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)
- 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
- (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)
- a delirium
References
- “delirium” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
delirium n (definite singular deliriet, indefinite plural delirium, definite plural deliria)
- 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
- delirium
Declension
Further reading
- delirium in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Swedish
Noun
delirium n
- delirium
Declension
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