Word Meanings - PHRENSY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Violent and irrational excitement; delirium. See Frenzy.

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• IRRATIONAL
  Not capable of being exactly expressed by an integral number, or by a vulgar fraction; surd; -- said especially of roots. See Surd. Syn. -- Absurd; foolish; preposterous; unreasonable; senseless. See Absurd. (more info) 1. Not rational; void of
• VIOLENT
  probably akin to Gr. 1. Moving or acting with physical strength; urged or impelled with force; excited by strong feeling or passion; forcible; vehement; impetuous; fierce; furious; severe; as, a violent blow; the violent attack of a disease. Float
• IRRATIONALNESS
  Irrationality.
• DELIRIUM
  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.
• IRRATIONALLY
  In an irrational manner. Boyle.
• VIOLENTLY
  In a violent manner.
• EXCITEMENT
  A state of aroused or increased vital activity in an organism, or any of its organs or tissues. (more info) 1. The act of exciting, or the state of being roused into action, or of having increased action; impulsion; agitation; as, an excitement
• FRENZY
  Any violent agitation of the mind approaching to distraction; violent and temporary derangement of the mental faculties; madness; rage. All else is towering frenzy and distraction. Addison. The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling. Shak. Syn. --
• IRRATIONALITY
  The quality or state of being irrational. "Brutish irrationaliity." South.
• OVEREXCITEMENT
  Excess of excitement; the state of being overexcited.