Delirium

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A temporary state of mental confusion and fluctuating consciousness resulting from high fever, intoxication, shock, or other causes. It is characterized by anxiety, disorientation, hallucinations, delusions, and incoherent speech.
  • n. A state of uncontrolled excitement or emotion: sports fans in delirium after their team's victory.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A disordered state, more or less temporary, of the mental faculties, occurring during illness, especially in febrile conditions.
  • n. Violent excitement; exaggerated enthusiasm; mad rapture.
  • n. A hallucination or delusion; a creation of the imagination.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a usually brief state of excitement and mental confusion often accompanied by hallucinations
  • n. state of violent mental agitation
  • Antonym
    mania   
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    frenzy    insanity    fury    derangement    aberration    mania    madness    lunacy    excitement   
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    Miriam    bacterium   
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    hallucination    convulsion    madness    stupor    frenzy    dizziness    ecstasy    paralysis    intoxication    lethargy