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manic
/ ˈmænɪk /
adjective
- characterizing, denoting, or affected by mania
noun
- a person afflicted with mania
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Other Words From
- hyper·manic adjective
- sub·manic adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of manic1
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Example Sentences
In his own words, he is “actually very manic depressive” and can feel the world moving past him.
Bart gets confused and angry, he gets bullied, he experiences the manic highs and lows that come with being a child.
My dad in a kind of manic phase, feeling really euphoric and excited and like [sharp breath intake] kind of high.
“At the time I first knew Robin, he was very manic,” recalls Mazursky, who used to be a stand-up comic himself.
At the same time I was on an emotional upswing, a hyper-manic swoop and I was falling in love with my now-wife.
In the excited stage of manic-depressive insanity it is not uncommon to find that the memory is abnormally active.
Of the two terms (folie circulaire and manic-depressive insanity) the latter is the more correct.
The mental symptoms, in short, are very similar to those of the elevated stage of manic-depressive insanity.
The cases in this family seem all to be instances of manic-depressive insanity.
At the Observation Pavilion she appeared to be typically manic.
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