Frenzy

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: fren=zy

CIDE DICTIONARY

Frenzy, n. [OE. frenesie, fransey, F. frénésie, L. phrenesis, fr. Gr. fre`nhsis for freni^tis disease of the mind, phrenitis, fr. frhn mind. Cf. Frantic, Phrenitis.].

 Any violent agitation of the mind approaching to distraction; violent and temporary derangement of the mental faculties; madness; rage.  [1913 Webster]
"All else is towering frenzy and distraction."  [1913 Webster]
"The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling."

Syn. -- Insanity; lunacy; madness; derangement; alienation; aberration; delirium. See Insanity.

Frenzy, a. 

 Mad; frantic.  [1913 Webster]
"They thought that some frenzy distemper had got into his head."  [1913 Webster]

Frenzy, v. t. 

 To affect with frenzy; to drive to madness  Southey.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Frenzy, n. & v.
--n. (pl. -ies)
1 mental derangement; wild excitement or agitation.
2 delirious fury.
--v.tr. (-ies, -ied) (usu. as frenzied adj.) drive to frenzy; infuriate.

Derivative

frenziedly adv.

Etymology

ME f. OF frenesie f. med.L phrenesia f. L phrenesis f. Gk phren mind

THESAURUS

Frenzy

Jacksonian epilepsy, Rolandic epilepsy, abandon, abdominal epilepsy, access, acquired epilepsy, activated epilepsy, affect epilepsy, agitation, akinetic epilepsy, amok, annoy, apoplexy, arouse, arrest, attack, autonomic epilepsy, awake, awaken, befuddlement, bewilderment, blockage, blow the coals, blow up, bluster, bother, botheration, bout, brawl, broil, brouhaha, cacophony, call forth, call up, cardiac epilepsy, chaos, clonic spasm, clonus, cloud, commotion, confusion, convulsion, cortical epilepsy, cramp, craze, cursive epilepsy, daze, delirium, dement, derange, discombobulation, discomfiture, discomposure, disconcertion, disorder, disorganization, disorientation, distract, distraction, disturbance, diurnal epilepsy, drive insane, drive mad, ebullition, eclampsia, ecstasy, embarrassment, embroilment, enkindle, enrage, epilepsia, epilepsia gravior, epilepsia major, epilepsia minor, epilepsia mitior, epilepsia nutans, epilepsia tarda, epilepsy, excite, excitement, falling sickness, fan, fan the fire, fan the flame, fanaticism, feed the fire, ferment, fever, fire, fire and fury, fit, flame, flap, flummox, flurry, fluster, flutter, focal epilepsy, fog, foment, fomentation, foofaraw, fuddle, fuddlement, fume, furor, furore, fury, fuss, grand mal, haute mal, haze, heat, hubbub, hysteria, hysterical epilepsy, ictus, impassion, incense, incite, infatuation, inflame, infuriate, intoxication, jumble, key up, kindle, larval epilepsy, laryngeal epilepsy, laryngospasm, lash into fury, latent epilepsy, lather up, light the fuse, light up, lockjaw, mad, madden, madness, make mad, mania, matutinal epilepsy, maze, menstrual epilepsy, mess, mist, move, muddle, muddlement, murderous insanity, musicogenic epilepsy, myoclonous epilepsy, nocturnal epilepsy, occlusion, orgasm, orgy, outburst, overambitiousness, overanxiety, overanxiousness, overeagerness, overenthusiasm, overexcite, overzealousness, pandemonium, paroxysm, passion, perplexity, perturbation, petit mal, physiologic epilepsy, pother, psychic epilepsy, psychokinesia, psychomotor epilepsy, pucker, racket, rage, rapture, ravishment, reflex epilepsy, rotatoria, rouse, row, ruckus, ruffle, rumpus, seizure, send mad, sensory epilepsy, serial epilepsy, set astir, set fire to, set on fire, shatter, shuffle, spasm, steam up, stew, stir, stir the blood, stir the embers, stir the feelings, stir up, stoppage, storminess, stroke, summon up, sweat, swivet, tardy epilepsy, tearing passion, tempestuousness, tetanus, tetany, throes, thromboembolism, thrombosis, tizzy, tonic epilepsy, tonic spasm, torsion spasm, towering rage, transport, traumatic epilepsy, trismus, tumult, tumultuousness, turbulence, turmoil, turn on, ucinate epilepsy, unbalance, unhinge, unsettlement, uproar, upset, visitation, wake, wake up, waken, warm, warm the blood, whip up, wildness, work into, work up, zeal, zealotism, zealotry, zealousness

ROGET THESAURUS

Frenzy

Excitability

N excitability, impetuosity, vehemence, boisterousness, turbulence, impatience, intolerance, nonendurance, irritability, itching, wincing, disquiet, disquietude, restlessness, fidgets, fidgetiness, agitation, trepidation, perturbation, ruffle, hurry, fuss, flurry, fluster, flutter, pother, stew, ferment, whirl, buck fever, hurry-skurry, thrill, state of excitement, fever of excitement, transport, passion, excitement, flush, heat, fever, heat, fire, flame, fume, blood boiling, tumult, effervescence, ebullition, boiling over, whiff, gust, story, tempest, scene, breaking out, burst, fit, paroxysm, explosion, outbreak, outburst, agony, violence, fierceness, rage, fury, furor, furore, desperation, madness, distraction, raving, delirium, phrensy, frenzy, hysterics, intoxication, tearing passion, raging passion, anger, fascination, infatuation, fanaticism, Quixotism, Quixotry, tete montee, excitable, easily excited, in an excitable state, high-strung, irritable, impatient, intolerant, feverish, febrile, hysterical, delirious, mad, moody, maggoty- headed, unquiet, mercurial, electric, galvanic, hasty, hurried, restless, fidgety, fussy, chafing, startlish, mettlesome, high-mettled, skittish, vehement, demonstrative, violent, wild, furious, fierce, fiery, hot-headed, madcap, overzealous, enthusiastic, impassioned, fanatical, rabid, rampant, clamorous, uproarious, turbulent, tempestuous, tumultuary, boisterous, impulsive, impetuous, passionate, uncontrolled, uncontrollable, ungovernable, irrepressible, stanchless, inextinguishable, burning, simmering, volcanic, ready to burst forth, volatile, excited, exciting, Int, pish!, pshaw!, noli me tangere, filled with fury, rapt, inspir'd, maggiore fretta minore atto.

Insanity

N insanity, disordered reason, disordered intellect, diseased mind, unsound mind, abnormal mind, derangement, unsoundness, psychosis, neurosis, cognitive disorder, affective disorder, insanity, lunacy, madness, mania, rabies, furor, mental alienation, aberration, paranoia, schizophrenia, dementation, dementia, demency, phrenitis, phrensy, frenzy, raving, incoherence, wandering, delirium, calenture of the brain, delusion, hallucination, lycanthropy, brain storm, vertigo, dizziness, swimming, sunstroke, coup de soleil, siriasis, fanaticism, infatuation, craze, oddity, eccentricity, twist, monomania (caprice), kleptodipsomania, hypochondriasis, melancholia, depression, clinical depression, severe depression, hysteria, amentia, screw loose, tile loose, slate loose, bee in one's bonnet, rats in the upper story, dotage, insane, mad, lunatic, loony, crazy, crazed, aliene, non compos mentis, not right, cracked, touched, bereft of reason, all possessed, unhinged, unsettled in one's mind, insensate, reasonless, beside oneself, demented, daft, phrenzied, frenzied, frenetic, possessed, possessed with a devil, deranged, maddened, moonstruck, shatterpated, mad-brained, scatter brained, shatter brained, crackbrained, touched, tetched, off one's head, maniacal, delirious, lightheaded, incoherent, rambling, doting, wandering, frantic, raving, stark staring mad, stark raving mad, wild-eyed, berserk, delusional, hallucinatory, corybantic, dithyrambic, rabid, giddy, vertiginous, wild, haggard, mazed, flighty, distracted, distraught, depressed, agitated, hyped up, bewildered, mad as a March hare, mad as a hatter, of unsound mind, touched in one's head, wrong in one's head, not right in one's head, not in one's right mind, not right in one's wits, upper story, out of one's mind, out of one's wits, out of one's skull, far gone, out of one's senses, out of one's wits, not in one's right mind, fanatical, infatuated, odd, eccentric, hypped, hyppish, spaced out, imbecile, silly, like one possessed, the mind having lost its balance, the reason under a cloud, tet exaltee, tet montee, ira furor brevis est, omnes stultos insanire.

Imagination

N imagination, originality, invention, fancy, inspiration, verve, warm imagination, heated imagination, excited imagination, sanguine imagination, ardent imagination, fiery imagination, boiling imagination, wild imagination, bold imagination, daring imagination, playful imagination, lively imagination, fertile imagination, fancy, mind's eye, such stuff as dreams are made of, ideality, idealism, romanticism, utopianism, castle-building, dreaming, phrensy, frenzy, ecstasy, extasy, calenture, reverie, trance, day dream, golden dream, somnambulism, conception, Vorstellung, excogitation, a fine frenzy, cloudland, dreamland, flight of fancy, fumes of fancy, thick coming fancies, creation of the brain, coinage of the brain, imagery, conceit, maggot, figment, myth, dream, vision, shadow, chimera, phantasm, phantasy, fantasy, fancy, whim, whimsey, whimsy, vagary, rhapsody, romance, gest, geste, extravaganza, air drawn dagger, bugbear, nightmare, flying Dutchman, great sea serpent, man in the moon, castle in the air, pipe dream, pie-in-the-sky, chateau en Espagne, Utopia, Atlantis, happy valley, millennium, fairyland, land of Prester John, kindgom of Micomicon, work of fiction, Arabian nights, le pot au lait, dream of Alnashar, illusion, phantom, Fata Morgana, vapor, stretch of the imagination, mythogenesis, idealist, romanticist, visionary, mopus, romancer, dreamer, somnambulist, rhapsodist, castle-buildier, fanciful projector, imagined, ben trovato, air drawn, airbuilt, imagining, imaginative, original, inventive, creative, fertile, romantic, high flown, flighty, extravagant, fanatic, enthusiastic, unrealistic, Utopian, Quixotic, ideal, unreal, in the clouds, in nubibus, unsubsantial, illusory, fabulous, legendary, mythical, mythic, mythological, chimerical, imaginary, visionary, notional, fancy, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, whimsical, fairy, fairy-like, gestic, a change came o'er the spirit of my dream, aegri somnia vana, dolphinum appingit sylvis in fluctibus aprum, fancy light from fancy caught, imagination rules the world, l'imagination gallope, le jugement ne va que le pas, musaeo contingens cuncta lepore, tous songes sont mensonges, Wahrheil und Dichtung, DIVISION II COMMUNICATION OF IDEAS.