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Definitions: PHRENSY |
PHRENSYNoun1. Violent and irrational excitement; delirium. See Frenzy. Transitive verb1. To render frantic. |
Date "PHRENSY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1798. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Excitability | Violence; fierceness; Adjective: rage, fury, furor, furore, desperation, madness, distraction, raving, delirium; phrensy, frenzy, hysterics; intoxication; tearing passion, raging passion; anger. |
Imagination | Dreaming; phrensy, frenzy; ecstasy, extasy; calenture; (delirium); reverie, trance; day dream, golden dream; somnambulism. |
Insanity | Insanity, lunacy; madness; Adjective: mania, rabies, furor, mental alienation, aberration; paranoia, schizophrenia; dementation, dementia, demency; phrenitis, phrensy, frenzy, raving, incoherence, wandering, delirium, calenture of the brain; delusion, hallucination; lycanthropy; brain storm. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Language | Translations for "PHRENSY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Romanian | nebunie (craze, craziness, dementia, distraction, Folly, foolery, foolishness, frenzy, hobby, insanity, lunacy, madness, mania, mischief, raving), frenezie (frenzy, madness). (various references) | |
Ukranian | шаленство (chafe, fury, rage, rampage, raving, vehemence), божевілля (alienation, dementia, frenzy, insanity, lunacy, madness). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "PHRENSY": phrensying. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-n-p-r-s-y" | |
-1 letter: henrys, sphery, sypher. | |
-2 letters: henry, herns, hyper, hypes, preys, pyres, shyer, syren. | |
-3 letters: erns, espy, hens, hern, hers, hype, hyps, pehs, pens, prey, pyes, pyre, reps, resh, ryes, snye, spry, syne, syph, yens. | |
-4 letters: ens, ern, ers, hen, hep, her, hes, hey, hyp, peh, pen, per, pes, pry, pye, rep, res, rye, sen, ser. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-h-n-p-r-s-y" | |
+1 letter: hyperons. | |
+2 letters: pharynges, pharynxes, syphering. | |
+3 letters: gynophores, hyperlinks, hyperpneas, hypersonic, hypertense, phenocryst, phrensying, pyrethrins. | |
+4 letters: granophyres, handyperson, hydrophanes, hydrophones, hydroplanes, hypermanias, hypermnesia, hypermnesic, hyperplanes, hypersaline, hypersthene, hypertonias, hypocenters, keypunchers, parenchymas, pennyworths, periphytons, phalanstery, phenocrysts, polyhedrons, prophesying, scenography, stenography, stereophony, superhyping. | |
+5 letters: attorneyship, handypersons, hyperboreans, hypercapnias, hyperextends, hyperintense, hyperkineses, hyperkinesia, hyperkinesis, hypermnesias, hypersthenes, hypersthenic, hypertension, hypertensive, interpsychic, lycanthropes, oropharynges, oropharynxes, phenocrystic, platyrrhines, prehensility, pyrotechnics, pyrotechnist, rehypnotizes, superhumanly, synchroscope, tryptophanes, whisperingly. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 48 52 45 4E 53 59 |
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