Word.ws English Dictionary

deliriums

deliriums 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 deliriums

alternative formdeliria

Questions about deliriums

What is deliriums the plural of?
Deliriums is the plural of delirium.

Words near deliriums in the dictionary

  1. delirious
  2. deliriously
  3. deliriousness
  4. delirium
  5. delirium tremens
  6. deliriums
  7. delis
  8. DeLisa
  9. DeLisas
  10. delish
  11. DeLisi

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: deliriums (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “deliriums.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/deliriums. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.