Synonyms for frenzy


Grammar : Noun
Spell : fren-zee
Phonetic Transcription : ˈfrɛn zi

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Définition of frenzy

Origin :
  • mid-14c., "delirium, insanity," from Old French frenesie, from Medieval Latin phrenesia, from phrenesis, back-formation from Latin phreneticus "delirious" (see frenetic). Meaning "excited state of mind" is from c.1400.
  • noun uncontrolled state or situation
Example sentences :
  • Their walk was a delight to him, their roaring gallop a frenzy of eager sensation.
  • Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser
  • Nor, in the blindness of his frenzy, had he seen when she had gone nor whither she went.
  • Extract from : « Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates » by Howard Pyle
  • Have a care, Jinkins, ere you provoke a desperate man to frenzy!
  • Extract from : « Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit » by Charles Dickens
  • Clotilde, in a frenzy of grief, raised her arm, as if to drive her out of the room.
  • Extract from : « Doctor Pascal » by Emile Zola
  • They could do neither now, for the fear that possessed them at sight of Israel's frenzy.
  • Extract from : « The Scapegoat » by Hall Caine
  • John rebuked them and turned them out of the room, but he was almost in as great a frenzy.
  • Extract from : « The Christian » by Hall Caine
  • Call it frenzy if you like—I don't much mind what people call it.
  • Extract from : « The Woman Thou Gavest Me » by Hall Caine
  • If so, it was the frenzy of a self-sacrifice that was sublimity itself.
  • Extract from : « The Shadow of a Crime » by Hall Caine
  • The girl was in a sort of frenzy of excitement and hysterical exaltation.
  • Extract from : « Keziah Coffin » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • It is the frenzy into which men whip themselves to justify an evil passion.
  • Extract from : « Captain Blood » by Rafael Sabatini

Antonyms for frenzy

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