Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or having bipolar disorder.
- noun A person who has bipolar disorder.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Both manic and melancholic: noting a form of insanity in which mania and melancholia alternate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) A person suffering from
manic-depressive psychosis .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Exhibiting
manic depression .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person afflicted with manic-depressive illness
- adjective suffering from a disorder characterized by alternating mania and depression
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Examples
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The disease that encompassed all these different appearances was now to be called manic-depressive insanity.
MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010
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An ironic exception to these nineteenth-century writers who were emphasizing the mysterious, irrational, and overwhelming forces that gave rise to genius was the essayist Charles Lamb; confined at one time to a private asylum for what now would almost certainly be called manic-depressive illness, he was also the close companion to a sister intermittently insane with manic-depressive psychosis.
Touched with Fire Kay Redfield Jamison 1993
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An ironic exception to these nineteenth-century writers who were emphasizing the mysterious, irrational, and overwhelming forces that gave rise to genius was the essayist Charles Lamb; confined at one time to a private asylum for what now would almost certainly be called manic-depressive illness, he was also the close companion to a sister intermittently insane with manic-depressive psychosis.
Touched with Fire Kay Redfield Jamison 1993
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An ironic exception to these nineteenth-century writers who were emphasizing the mysterious, irrational, and overwhelming forces that gave rise to genius was the essayist Charles Lamb; confined at one time to a private asylum for what now would almost certainly be called manic-depressive illness, he was also the close companion to a sister intermittently insane with manic-depressive psychosis.
Touched with Fire Kay Redfield Jamison 1993
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An ironic exception to these nineteenth-century writers who were emphasizing the mysterious, irrational, and overwhelming forces that gave rise to genius was the essayist Charles Lamb; confined at one time to a private asylum for what now would almost certainly be called manic-depressive illness, he was also the close companion to a sister intermittently insane with manic-depressive psychosis.
Touched with Fire Kay Redfield Jamison 1993
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They found that less than half of those with bipolar disorder -- also known as manic-depressive illness -- received mental health treatment during their lifetimes.
FOXNews.com 2011
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If Leibovich had mostly settled on a picture of Beck as a manic-depressive with suicidal tendencies who doesn't know who he is from moment to moment, that would have been one thing.
Michael Shaw: Reading the Pictures: Glenn Beck, the Picture of Innocence Michael Shaw 2010
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If Leibovich had mostly settled on a picture of Beck as a manic-depressive with suicidal tendencies who doesn't know who he is from moment to moment, that would have been one thing.
Michael Shaw: Reading the Pictures: Glenn Beck, the Picture of Innocence Michael Shaw 2010
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The static of the erratic fanatic romantic manic-depressive: upside down, impulsive, regressive.
Anatomy of a Breakdown DJ Young 2011
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If Leibovich had mostly settled on a picture of Beck as a manic-depressive with suicidal tendencies who doesn't know who he is from moment to moment, that would have been one thing.
Michael Shaw: Reading the Pictures: Glenn Beck, the Picture of Innocence Michael Shaw 2010
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