deliration
/dɛlɪˈreɪʃ(ə)n
/noun [mass noun] rare
Frenzied or delirious behaviour.Two pages of it will produce a mild deliration....
- Their immense and sandy diffuseness is like the prairie, or the desert, and their incongruities are like the last deliration.
- It would have been repressed by ridicule as a deliration of the human mind.
Origin
Early 17th century: from Latin deliratio(n-), from delirat- past participial stem of delirare 'deviate, be deranged' (see delirium) + -ation.
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