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deliria

deliria is the plural of delirium.

Meaning of delirium

Noun

delirium (countable and uncountable, plural deliriums or deliria)

  1. A temporary mental state with a sudden onset, usually reversible, including symptoms of confusion, inability to concentrate, disorientation, anxiety, and sometimes hallucinations. Causes can include dehydration, drug intoxication, and severe infection.
    • The popular delirium [of the French Revolution] at first caught his enthusiastic mind.1824, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], Tales of a Traveller, (please specify |part=1 to 4), Philadelphia, Pa.: H[enry] C[harles] Carey & I[saac] Lea, […], →OCLC
  2. Wild, frenzied excitement or ecstasy.

Forms of deliria

alternative formdeliriums

Phrases with deliria

Words that rhyme with deliria

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Questions about deliria

What is deliria the plural of?
Deliria is the plural of delirium.

Words near deliria in the dictionary

  1. delirate
  2. delirates
  3. delirating
  4. deliration
  5. delirations
  6. deliria
  7. deliriant
  8. deliriants
  9. deliriate
  10. deliriated
  11. delirifacient

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Adapted from Wiktionary: deliria (page history and authors); delirium (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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