Synonyms for delirium
dɪˈlɪər i əm; -ˈlɪər i ədelir·i·um

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1. delirium

   Of these terms insanity is the most exact and comprehensive, including in its widest sense all morbid conditions of mind due to diseased action of the brain or nervous system, but in its more frequent restricted use applied to those forms in which the mental disorder is persistent, as distinguished from those in which it is temporary or transient. Craziness is a vague popular term for any sort of disordered mental action, or for conduct suggesting it. Lunacy originally denoted intermittent insanity, supposed to be dependent on the changes of the moon (Latin luna): the term is now applied in general and legal use to any form of mental unsoundness except idiocy. Madness is the old popular term, now less common, for insanity in its widest sense, but with suggestion of excitement, akin to mania. In the derived sense, lunacy denotes what is insanely foolish, madness what is insanely desperate. Derangement is a common euphemism for insanity. Delirium is always temporary, and is specifically the insanity of disease, as in acute fevers. Dementia is a general weakening of the mental powers: the word is specifically applied to senile insanity, dotage. Aberration is eccentricity of mental action due to an abnormal state of the perceptive faculties, and is manifested by error in perceptions and rambling thought. Hallucination is the apparent perception of that which does not exist or is not present to the senses, as the seeing of specters or of reptiles in delirium tremens. Monomania is mental derangement as to one subject or object. Frenzy and mania are forms of raving and furious insanity. Compare synonyms for DELUSION; IDIOCY.

   Synonyms:
   aberration, alienation, craziness, dementia, derangement, frenzy, hallucination, insanity, lunacy, madness, mania, monomania

   Antonyms:
   clearness, good sense, lucidity, rationality, sanity

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1. craze, delirium, frenzy, fury, hysterianoun

   state of violent mental agitation

   Synonyms:
   fad, hysterical neurosis, furiousness, hysteria, craze, vehemence, cult, madness, ferocity, violence, fierceness, furore, fury, frenzy, rage, wildness, furor

2. deliriumnoun

   a usually brief state of excitement and mental confusion often accompanied by hallucinations

   Synonyms:
   fury, hysteria, frenzy, craze

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1. deliriumnoun

   Synonyms:
   wandering (as in fevers), incoherence, hallucination, derangement, insanity, frenzy, raving, madness, alienation of mind

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1. List of paraphrases for "delirium":

   delusional, delirious, delusion

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1. Andrew Lerman:

   She knows where she is, who she is -- she's as sharp as a tack, usually, when somebody comes out of a coma like that, they say that the patients have delirium where they're very confused. From day one, she hasn't experienced any of that.

2. Deiby Jaimes:

   It's time, there's a social, economic and political crisis. Economically we're completely lost and in a delirium.

3. Michele Heisler:

   You can't say that someone dies from any form of delirium, it's like saying, what is the cause of death ? Chest pain. What is the cause of death ? I don't know, shortness of breath. In a way, it's as nonsensical.

4. Louis-Ferdinand Céline:

   To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!

5. Walter Dunn .:

   Even clinicians would have a difficult time diagnosing an excited delirium, when you employ ketamine you better be darn sure that this is excited delirium and not something else.