Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A mild state of mania, especially as a phase of a manic-depressive cycle.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A mildly maniacal state of short duration.
Wiktionary
- n. medicine A mild form of mania, especially the phase of several mood disorders characterized by euphoria or hyperactivity.
Etymologies
- From hypo- + mania, after German Hypomanie. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Mild mania, often the start of a stronger mania or even the bipolar illness itself, is called hypomania.”
Simon & Schuster: The Ups and Downs of Raising a Bipolar Child
“But hypomania, which is also a symptom of the disorder, is a high-energy state in which a person feels exuberant but hasn't lost his or her grip on reality.”
“There's two types of bipolar disorder, type one, where people have frank manic states, and type two, where they have lower levels of mania called hypomania, where they're still kind of connected to reality, but they're very active; they don't need to sleep very much.”
“Today they would more likely be termed "hypomania," a fair diagnosis for any individual who manages single-handedly to found a library, fire company, police force, hospital, university, insurance company, sanitation department and militia.”
“Psychiatrist Dr Anthony Durrell told an appeal hearing earlier this year that Einfeld displayed symptoms of "hypomania", manifesting itself in grandiose ideas about himself.”
“He said Einfeld displayed symptoms of "hypomania", demonstrating grandiose ideas about his altruistic pursuits including the plight of Aborigines and the Jewish/Palestine conflict.”
“During the interviews, he said Einfeld displayed symptoms of "hypomania", demonstrating grandiose ideas about his altruistic pursuits.”
“• "hypomania," a measure of anxiety and unrealistic optimism (from 5% of students in 1938 to 31% in 2007) • and depression (from 1% to 6%).”
“hypomania" and bouts of depression - when he made the offer.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hypomania’.
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-mania
mental disorder; excessive craving
kleptomania, bibliomania, manic, Beatlemania, pyromania, megalomania, ablutomania, aboulomania, agromania, andromania, anglomania, anthomania and 122 more...
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habanera, habile, habiliment, hackle, hackney, hadal, hame, hank, hansom, hapax, hark, harl and 568 more...
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Serendipity's Words
defenestration, mercurial, syzygy, wicked, iniquitous, metastable, demimonde, entropic, ephemeral, irreligious, frisbee, manifold and 474 more...
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five syllables
ontogenesis, phylogenesis, concatenation, androgenesis, extra textual, inexorably, spagyrically, apophenia, iatrochemist, monocotyloid, morphological, parthenogenic and 941 more...
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drspork's Words
solecism, dithyrambic, monomaniac, tautology, perspicacious, novena, chthonian, miasma, provender, carom, fuliginous, protoplasm and 102 more...
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hypomania, hypomanic, complementary, deem, problematic, volatile, mercurial, unaccompanied, counterpart, irritability, hyperthymia, violent and 130 more...
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Wordmania
ablutomania, agromania, anthomania, arithmomania, balletomania, bibliomania, bruxomania, cleptomania, decalcomania, demonomania, dipsomania, dromomania and 42 more...
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It's a Mad, Mad World!
Madness, neurosis etc.
psychedelic, psychosis, neurosis, hypomania, mania, madness, fuss budget, worrier, hysteria, basket case
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