adj
Meaning 1
Mad; frantic.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
frenzy
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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Pronunciation
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noun
Meaning 2
A state of wild activity or panic.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- international media frenzy
- She went into a cleaning frenzy to prepare for the unexpected guests.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A violent agitation of the mind approaching madness; rage.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
To render frantic.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncommon
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Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 5
To exhibit a frenzy, such as a feeding frenzy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare
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noun
Meaning 6
state of violent mental agitation
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: craze, delirium, fury, hysteria
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: mania, manic disorder
Narrower terms: nympholepsy, mass hysteria, epidemic hysertia
History
Etymology
From Middle English frensy, frenesie, from Old French frenesie, from Latin phrenesis, from Ancient Greek *φρένησις (*phrénēsis), a later equivalent of φρενῖτις (phrenîtis, “inflammation of the brain”): see frantic and frenetic. Doublet of phrenesis.
Across languages
Translations
57 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: կատաղություն (kataġutʻyun) — state of wild activity or panic
- Central Bikol: labulabo — state of wild activity or panic
- Bulgarian: ярост (jarost) — state of wild activity or panic
- Bulgarian: безумие (bezumie) — state of wild activity or panic
- Catalan: frenesí — state of wild activity or panic
- Chinese Mandarin: 發狂 /发狂 (fākuáng) — state of wild activity or panic
- Chinese Mandarin: 狂熱 /狂热 (kuángrè) — state of wild activity or panic
- Danish: vanvid — state of wild activity or panic
- Danish: raseri — state of wild activity or panic
- Dutch: razernij — state of wild activity or panic
- Finnish: vimma — state of wild activity or panic
- Finnish: kiihko — state of wild activity or panic
- Finnish: paniikki — state of wild activity or panic
- French: frénésie — state of wild activity or panic
- Galician: farnesía — state of wild activity or panic
- Galician: guinada — state of wild activity or panic
- German: Wahn — state of wild activity or panic
- German: Rausch — state of wild activity or panic
- German: Wut — state of wild activity or panic
- Greek: φρενίτιδα (frenítida) — state of wild activity or panic
- Italian: frenesia — state of wild activity or panic
- Japanese: 逆上 (gyakujō) — state of wild activity or panic
- Korean: 발광 (balgwang) — state of wild activity or panic
- Korean: 광란 (gwangnan) — state of wild activity or panic
- Latin: furia — state of wild activity or panic
- Latvian: trakums — state of wild activity or panic
- Māori: hōkeka — state of wild activity or panic
- Plautdietsch: Wonsenn — state of wild activity or panic
- Polish: szał — state of wild activity or panic
- Polish: amok — state of wild activity or panic
- Portuguese: frenesi — state of wild activity or panic
- Portuguese: frenesim — state of wild activity or panic
- Romanian: frenezie — state of wild activity or panic
- Russian: энтузиазм (entuziazm) — state of wild activity or panic
- Sicilian: furia — state of wild activity or panic
- Sicilian: frinisìa — state of wild activity or panic
- Sicilian: sdilliriu — state of wild activity or panic
- Sicilian: sbentu — state of wild activity or panic
- Sicilian: smania — state of wild activity or panic
- Spanish: frenesí — state of wild activity or panic
- Spanish: manía — state of wild activity or panic
- Spanish: desenfreno — state of wild activity or panic
- Spanish: desenfrenamiento — state of wild activity or panic
- Spanish: desfrenamiento — state of wild activity or panic
- Spanish: paroxismo — state of wild activity or panic
- Telugu: వీరావేశము (vīrāvēśamu) — state of wild activity or panic
- Ukrainian: шаленство (šalenstvo) — state of wild activity or panic
- Ukrainian: шаленість (šalenistʹ) — state of wild activity or panic
- Ukrainian: божевілля (boževillja) — state of wild activity or panic
- Galician: frenesí — a violent agitation of the mind approaching madness; rage
- Russian: неи́стовство (neístovstvo) — a violent agitation of the mind approaching madness; rage
- Russian: безу́мие (bezúmije) — a violent agitation of the mind approaching madness; rage
- Russian: помеша́тельство (pomešátelʹstvo) — a violent agitation of the mind approaching madness; rage
- Russian: сумасше́ствие (sumasšéstvije) — a violent agitation of the mind approaching madness; rage
- Russian: истерия (isterija) — a violent agitation of the mind approaching madness; rage
- Russian: исступление (isstuplenije) — a violent agitation of the mind approaching madness; rage
- Russian: остервенение (ostervenenije) — a violent agitation of the mind approaching madness; rage
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