frenzy

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A state of wild activity or panic.

   International media frenzy.

2. 2
   noun

   A violent agitation of the mind approaching madness; rage.

   The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling.

3. 3
   adj

   Mad; frantic.

   They thought that some frenzy distemper had got into his head.

4. 4
   verb

   To render frantic.

   Both goaded on to strife by frenzying hate.

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.

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