Definitions
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- noun Extreme mental excitement.
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- noun psychology A state of
mental overactivity such as occurs in flights of ideas or in a manic episode.
Etymologies
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From the Greek hyper- (over) + -phren (mind, originally midriff, the supposed seat of the soul) + -ia (indicating a condition or quality).
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