Delirium of one person is called madness. Delirium of thousands of people is called religion.
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Delirium
//dɪˈlɪ.ɹi.əm//
Synonyms for "delirium" (115 found)
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Closest matches (23)
Strong matches (35)
Related words (57)
imageryimaginationimaginingincoherenceinsanityinsubstantial imageintermittent feverintoxicationinventionlingual deliriummadnessmaggotmake believemake-believemental blockmental confusionmythnihilismnihilistic delusionorgasm
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orgyparalogiapassionphantasmphantomprotein feverpsychological blockpuerperal feverpyrexiaragerantingraptureravingravishmentrelapsing feverremittentremittent feverromancesick fancystretch of the imaginationtearing passionthick-coming fanciestowering ragetransporttripurethral fevervaccinal fevervaporvisionwanderingwater feverwhimwhimsywildest dreamwildest dreamswound feverzeal
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Translations
76 translations across 50 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- jerm noun (mental state of confusion)
Arabic
1 entries- هَذَيَان noun (mental state of confusion)
Armenian
2 entries- զառանցանք noun (mental state of confusion)
- ցնորք noun (mental state of confusion)
Asturian
1 entries- deliriu noun (mental state of confusion)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- deliriya noun (mental state of confusion)
- sayıqlama noun (mental state of confusion)
Basque
3 entries- eldarnio noun (mental state of confusion)
- zorabio noun (mental state of confusion)
- zoraldi noun (mental state of confusion)
Belarusian
1 entries- брэд noun (mental state of confusion)
Bulgarian
2 entries- бълну́ване noun (mental state of confusion)
- дели́риум noun (mental state of confusion)
Catalan
1 entries- deliri noun (mental state of confusion)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 神志昏迷 noun (mental state of confusion)
- 譫妄 /谵妄 noun (mental state of confusion)
Czech
1 entries- delirium noun (mental state of confusion)
Danish
1 entries- delirium noun (mental state of confusion)
Dutch
2 entries- delier noun (mental state of confusion)
- delirium noun (mental state of confusion)
Esperanto
1 entries- deliro noun (mental state of confusion)
Finnish
3 entries- delirium noun (mental state of confusion)
- houretila noun (mental state of confusion)
- sekavuus noun (mental state of confusion)
French
1 entries- délire noun (mental state of confusion)
Galician
1 entries- delirio noun (mental state of confusion)
German
3 entries- Delirium noun (mental state of confusion)
- Fieberphantasie noun (mental state of confusion)
- Taumel noun (mental state of confusion)
Greek
2 entries- ντελίριο noun (mental state of confusion)
- παραλήρημα noun (mental state of confusion)
Gujarati
1 entries- ચિત્તભ્રમણા noun (mental state of confusion)
Hebrew
1 entries- דֶלִירְיוּם noun (mental state of confusion)
Hungarian
1 entries- delírium noun (mental state of confusion)
Icelandic
1 entries- óráð noun (mental state of confusion)
Indonesian
1 entries- delirium noun (mental state of confusion)
Irish
1 entries- rámhaille noun (mental state of confusion)
Italian
1 entries- delirio noun (mental state of confusion)
Japanese
2 entries- せん妄 noun (mental state of confusion)
- 譫妄 noun (mental state of confusion)
Kazakh
1 entries- сандырақ noun (mental state of confusion)
Korean
1 entries- 섬망 noun (mental state of confusion)
Latin
1 entries- dēlīrium noun (mental state of confusion)
Latvian
1 entries- delīrijs noun (mental state of confusion)
Macedonian
1 entries- делириум noun (mental state of confusion)
Māori
4 entries- kuawa noun (mental state of confusion)
- kutukutuahi noun (mental state of confusion)
- mate kuawa noun (mental state of confusion)
- ngutungutuahi noun (mental state of confusion)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- delirium noun (mental state of confusion)
Persian
1 entries- دلیریوم noun (mental state of confusion)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Feebadroom noun (mental state of confusion)
Polish
3 entries- delirium noun (mental state of confusion)
- delirka noun (mental state of confusion)
- majaczenie noun (mental state of confusion)
Portuguese
1 entries- delírio noun (mental state of confusion)
Romanian
1 entries- delir noun (mental state of confusion)
Russian
3 entries- бред noun (mental state of confusion)
- горя́чка noun (mental state of confusion)
- дели́рий noun (mental state of confusion)
Scottish Gaelic
4 entries- boile noun (mental state of confusion)
- breisleach noun (mental state of confusion)
- bruaillean noun (mental state of confusion)
- mearan noun (mental state of confusion)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- delirijum noun (mental state of confusion)
- делиријум noun (mental state of confusion)
Slovak
1 entries- delírium noun (mental state of confusion)
Slovene
1 entries- delirij noun (mental state of confusion)
Spanish
1 entries- delirio noun (mental state of confusion)
Swedish
1 entries- delirium noun (mental state of confusion)
Tagalog
1 entries- deliryo noun (mental state of confusion)
Turkish
2 entries- deliriyum noun (mental state of confusion)
- sayıklama noun (mental state of confusion)
Ukrainian
2 entries- бред noun (mental state of confusion)
- делі́рій noun (mental state of confusion)
Vietnamese
1 entries- mê sảng noun (mental state of confusion)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
We don't help racists promote their delirium caused by ignorance and stupidity.
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There's a widespread delirium.
Source: tatoeba (2020131)
On the inquest it was shown that Buck Fanshaw, in the delirium of a wasting typhoid fever, had taken arsenic, shot himself through the body, cut his throat, and jumped out of a four-story window and broken his neck—and after due deliberation, the jury, sad and tearful, but with intelligence unblinded by its sorrow, brought in a verdict of death "by the visitation of God." What could the world do without juries?
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