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Definition of deliration in English: delirationnoun dɛlɪˈreɪʃ(ə)n mass nounrare Frenzied or delirious behaviour. Example sentencesExamples - Their immense and sandy diffuseness is like the prairie, or the desert, and their incongruities are like the last deliration.
- Two pages of it will produce a mild deliration.
- The graceful levity of the nation could not easily err in this direction, nor tolerate such deliration in the greatest of men.
- She was not frantic; but had such a pretty deliration, that in her ravings there was oftentimes more attractiveness than in many sane persons' conversation.
- It would have been repressed by ridicule as a deliration of the human mind.
Synonyms insanity, insaneness, dementia, mental illness, derangement, dementedness, instability, unsoundness of mind, lunacy, distraction, depression, mania, hysteria, frenzy, psychosis, psychopathy, schizophrenia, hydrophobia
Origin Early 17th century: from Latin deliratio(n-), from delirat- past participial stem of delirare 'deviate, be deranged' (see delirium) + -ation. |