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delirium

[dih-leer-ee-uhm] / dɪˈlɪər i əm /


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Dart delirium was growing among Giants fans after the quarterback threw for three touchdowns and had a lofty passer rating of 134.2 in a 28-20 season-opening win over Dallas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

Now, imagine all that delirium, sign-waving and call-in voting was in service of pushing Art Garfunkel to the pinnacle of the premier music video countdown.

From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026

Those who’ve managed to come out of this new kind of tech-enabled delirium have learned how vital it is to stay in touch with the natural world and their natural instincts.

From Slate ● Feb. 2, 2026

But even in the delirium of meme-stock trading, Regencell is an outlier.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026

In the early morning, delirium again: the line of people crowding through my room, judging my gut.

From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson

The 4th century church father Jerome called them "deliria."

From Time Magazine Archive

Before Breuer and Janet, the great psychiatrist Leuret expressed the opinion that even for the deliria of the insane, if we only understood how to interpret them, a meaning could be found.

From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

A similar explanation is made readily enough in cases of evident bodily disease, even where mental symptoms are prominent, for it is no longer the custom to speak of demon-possession even in the acute deliria.

From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various

If stupor be a psychobiological reaction, it should occur, occasionally, in organic conditions just as the deliria of typhoid fever may contain many psychogenic elements.

From Benign Stupors A Study of a New Manic-Depressive Reaction Type by John T. (John Thompson) MacCurdy

Pronounced mental disorder occurs rarely in tuberculosis, according to Ziehen, and leads either to melancholia or to hallucinatory states of excitement, resembling the deliria of exhaustion or inanition.

From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various

Critics called the product’s most notable side effect “delirium” and warned that these deliriums could have catastrophic effects on children, the elderly, or the immunocompromised.

From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2021

Is this the book that launched a thousand quips, and stirred the orators to deliriums of denunciation?

From Time Magazine Archive

On the evening of the second day, the girl—the one who Goddard said was so important—came into his room in between deliriums.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

Did he want to tear down his carefully built edifice of culture and the habit of conventional life, and run away with Tira to elemental simplicities and sweet deliriums?

From Old Crow by Alice Brown

Certain individuals pass in a few years from psychasthenic depression with doubts and obsessions to psychasthenic deliriums with stubbornness and negativism, then to asthenic insanity with irremediable and complete want of power.

From A Psychiatric Milestone Bloomingdale Hospital Centenary, 1821-1921 by New York Hospital. Society


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