deliriums
Meaning of deliriums
- an acutely disturbed state of mind characterized by restlessness, illusions, and incoherence, occurring in intoxication, fever, and other disorders.
somewhere a patient shouted in delirium
she had fits of delirium
mid 16th century: from Latin, from delirare ‘deviate, be deranged’ (literally ‘deviate from the furrow’), from de- ‘away’ + lira ‘ridge between furrows’.
Information about deliriums
- It is a name.
- The singular form of deliriums is: delirium.
- Languages in which deliriums is used:
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Hyphenation of deliriums
delir-i-ums
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- deliriums is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
deliriums synonyms
Meaning a chronic or persistent disorder of the mental processes caused by brain disease or injury and marked by memory disorders, personality changes, and impaired reasoning:
Meaning the quality of being illogical, inconsistent, or unclear:
Meaning irrational or incoherent talk:
Meaning the quality of being illogical or unreasonable:
Meaning exaggerated or uncontrollable emotion or excitement:
Meaning the character of being uncultivated, undomesticated, or inhospitable:
Meaning a state or period of uncontrolled excitement or wild behaviour:
Meaning an experience involving the apparent perception of something not present:
Meaning feverish delirium formerly thought of as afflicting sailors in the tropics:
deliriums antonyms
Meaning clarity of expression; intelligibility:
Meaning the quality of being logical and consistent:
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