| 单词 | delirium |
| 释义 | delirium (once / 759 pages) n Experiencing delirium? Then you're out of your mind and so excited you're hallucinating. Many things can cause delirium, including illness, high stress, and your team winning the World Series after 100 years of trying. Delirium means “madness” in Latin, and for good reason. Patients with high fevers or who suffer severe trauma might experience a state of delirium, full of mental confusion and maybe a little hysteria. And if you’ve ever stayed up all night writing a paper or working hard to meet some deadline, you’ve probably experienced moments of delirium, where you feel crazed and hallucinatory, fueled by sleep deprivation and too much coffee. WORD FAMILYdelirium: delirious, deliriums+/delirious: deliriously USAGE EXAMPLESHe quipped that proponents of the “futuristic delirium” of seasteading wanted a “Noah’s Ark to the Wall Street gravy”. The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017) During a game, he and his players experienced a strange delirium. New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) A travel nurse named Joe comforted the family when Ted experienced a bout of delirium. Washington Times(Dec 30, 2016) 1n a usually brief state of excitement and mental confusion often accompanied by hallucinations Hyper disturbance, folie, mental disorder, mental disturbance, psychological disorder (psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness 2n state of violent mental agitation Syn|Hypo|Hyper craze, frenzy, fury, hysteria nympholepsy a frenzy of emotion; as for something unattainable epidemic hysertia, mass hysteriaa condition in which a large group of people exhibit the same state of violent mental agitation mania, manic disorder a mood disorder; an affective disorder in which the victim tends to respond excessively and sometimes violently |
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