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fren·zy

Audio Help [fren-zee] Pronunciation Key noun, plural -zies, verb, -zied, -zy·ing.

–noun

1.	extreme mental agitation; wild excitement or derangement.

2.	a fit or spell of violent mental excitement; a paroxysm characteristic of or resulting from a mania: He is subject to these frenzies several times a year.

–verb (used with object)

3.	to drive to frenzy; make frantic: She was frenzied by fear when she smelled the smoke.

[Origin: 1300–50; ME frenesie < OF < LL phrenésis < LGk, for Gk phrenǐtis; see phrenitis

]

—Related forms

fren·zi·ly, adverb

—Synonyms 2. madness, insanity, lunacy, aberration; rage, fury, raving.

—Antonyms 1. calm. 2. sanity.

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fren·zy Audio Help (frěn'zē) Pronunciation Key
n. pl. fren·zies

A state of violent mental agitation or wild excitement.
Temporary madness or delirium.
A mania; a craze.

tr.v. fren·zied, fren·zy·ing, fren·zies
To drive into a frenzy.

[Middle English frenesie, from Old French, from Medieval Latin phrenēsia, from Latin phrenēsis, back-formation from phrenēticus, delirious; see frenetic.]

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frenzy

c.1340, from O.Fr. frenesie, from M.L. phrenesia, from phrenesis, back-formation of L. phreneticus "delirious" (see frenetic).

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frenzy
noun
state of violent mental agitation [syn: craze]

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frenzy [ˈfrenzi] noun — plural ˈfrenzies

a state of great excitement, fear etc
Example: She waited in a frenzy of anxiety.

Arabic:	جُنون، ثَوَران، اهتِياج
Chinese (Simplified):	极为激动
Chinese (Traditional):	極為激動
Czech:	zuřivost, třeštění
Danish:	raserianfald
Dutch:	uitzinnigheid
Estonian:	hullus
Finnish:	kiihko
French:	frénésie
German:	die Heftigkeit von Emotionen
Greek:	παραλήρημα, φρενίτιδα
Hungarian:	őrjöngés

Icelandic:	æði, ofsi, uppnám
Italian:	frenesia
Japanese:	狂乱
Lithuanian:	paklaikimas
Polish:	szał
Portuguese (Brazil):	frenesi
Portuguese (Portugal):	frenesi
Romanian:	agitaţie
Russian:	неистовство
Spanish:	frenesí
Turkish:	aşırı heyecan; delice coşkunluk

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Main Entry: fren·zy
Pronunciation: 'fren-zE
Function: noun
Inflected Form: plural frenzies
1 a : a temporary madness b : a violent mental or emotional agitation
2 : intense usually wild and often disorderly compulsive or agitated activity —fren·zied /-zEd/ adjective

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Frenzy

Fran"tic\, a. [OE. frentik, frenetik, F. frentique, L. phreneticus, from Gr. ?. See Frenzy, and cf. Frenetic, Phrenetic.] Mad; raving; furious; violent; wild and disorderly; distracted.

Die, frantic wretch, for this accursed deed! --Shak.

Torrents of frantic abuse. --Macaulay. -- Fran"tic*al*ly, adv. -- Fran"tic*ly, adv. --Shak. -- Fran"tic*ness, n. --Johnson.

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Frenzy

Fren"zy\, n.; pl. Frenzies. [OE. frenesie, fransey, F. fr['e]n['e]sie, L. phrenesis, fr. Gr. ? for ? disease of the mind, phrenitis, fr. ? mind. Cf. Frantic, Phrenitis.] 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: Insanity; lunacy; madness; derangment; alienation; aberration; delirium. See Insanity.

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Frenzy

Fren"zy\, a. Mad; frantic. [R.]

They thought that some frenzy distemper had got into his head. --Bunyan.

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Frenzy

Fren"zy\, v. t. To affect with frenzy; to drive to madness [R.] "Frenzying anguish." --Southey.

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Frenzy

In*san"i*ty\, n. [L. insanitas unsoundness; cf. insania insanity, F. insanite.]

1. The state of being insane; unsoundness or derangement of mind; madness; lunacy.

All power of fancy overreason is a degree of insanity. --Johnson.

Without grace The heart's insanity admits no cure. --Cowper.

2. (Law) Such a mental condition, as, either from the existence of delusions, or from incapacity to distinguish between right and wrong, with regard to any matter under action, does away with individual responsibility.

Syn: Syn>- Insanity, Lunacy, Madness, Derangement, Aliention, Aberration, Mania, Delirium, Frenzy, Monomania, Dementia.

Usage: Insanity is the generic term for all such diseases; lunacy has now an equal extent of meaning, though once used to denote periodical insanity; madness has the same extent, though originally referring to the rage created by the disease; derangement, alienation, are popular terms for insanity; delirium, mania, and frenzy denote excited states of the disease; dementia denotes the loss of mental power by this means; monomania is insanity upon a single subject.

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Frenzy

Phre*ni"tis\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?, fr. ?, ?.]

1. (Med.) Inflammation of the brain, or of the meninges of the brain, attended with acute fever and delirium; -- called also cephalitis.

2. See Frenzy.

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Frenzy

Phren"sy\, n. Violent and irrational excitement; delirium. See Frenzy.

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