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furor
CIDE DICTIONARY
furor, n.
- an interest followed with exaggerated zeal; a fad. [WordNet 1.5]
- a sudden outburst (as of protest). [WordNet 1.5]
THESAURUS
furor
Alecto, Megaera, Nemesis, Tisiphone, abandon, aberration, abnormality, agitation, alienation, amok, ardency, ardor, attack, bluster, brain damage, brainsickness, brawl, broil, brouhaha, bug, burning rage, cacophony, chaos, clouded mind, commotion, convulsion, craze, craziness, crazy fancy, daftness, delirium, dementedness, dementia, derangement, disorientation, distraction, disturbance, ebullition, ecstasy, embroilment, enthusiasm, excitement, fanaticism, fascination, ferment, fervency, fervidness, fervor, fever, fire, fire and fury, fit, flap, folie, fomentation, foofaraw, frenzy, fume, furious rage, furore, fury, fuss, gusto, heart, heartiness, heat, hubbub, hysteria, impassionedness, infatuation, insaneness, insanity, intoxication, irrationality, liveliness, loss of mind, loss of reason, lunacy, madness, mania, manic-depressive psychosis, mental deficiency, mental derangement, mental disease, mental disorder, mental disturbance, mental illness, mental instability, mental sickness, mind overthrown, mindsickness, murderous insanity, oddness, orgasm, orgy, pandemonium, paroxysm, passion, passionateness, pixilation, possession, psychokinesia, queerness, rabidness, racket, rage, rapture, ravishment, reasonlessness, relish, row, ruckus, rumpus, savor, seizure, senselessness, shattered mind, sick mind, sickness, soul, spasm, spirit, storminess, strangeness, tearing passion, tempestuousness, the Erinyes, the Eumenides, the Furies, towering rage, transport, tumult, tumultuousness, turbulence, turmoil, unbalance, unbalanced mind, unsaneness, unsound mind, unsoundness, unsoundness of mind, uproar, upset, vehemence, verve, violence, warmth, warmth of feeling, wildness, witlessness, zeal, zealousnessROGET THESAURUS
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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.For further exploring for "furor" in Webster Dictionary Online