franticnessn.
/ˈfrantᵻknᵻs/, U.S. /ˈfræn(t)ɪknᵻs/ The state or condition of being frantic.
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the mind > emotion > violent emotion > [noun]
woodnessc1000
furyc1374
ferteec1380
ragea1393
violencea1393
excess1423
zeala1425
vehemence1445
extremity1509
franticnessa1529
vehemency1534
wildnessc1540
impotency1542
violent1576
distraughture1594
distraught1610
distractiona1616
distractedness?1617
entrancement1637
distractfulnessa1640
impotencea1640
transportment1639
transportednessa1656
violent1667
whirl1707
rave1765
Sturm und Drang1857
storm and stress1879
a1529 J. Skelton Speke Parrot in Poet. Wks. (1843) II. 20 Of frantycknes and folysshnes whyche ys the grett state?
1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie clxxii. 1568 Men bee driuen with a certaine furie or frentikenesse.
1664 S. Pepys Diary 15 Aug. (1971) V. 242 Her kinswoman, who it seems is sickly even to Frantiqueness sometimes.
1718 Entertainer No. 21. ⁋6 Frantickness, and a Start of Passion, they deify'd as the Extremity of Courage and Resolution.
1878 M. W. Hungerford Molly Bawn (1893) 139 You have all the franticness to yourself.
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