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phrensy

phrensy is the obsolete spelling of frenzy.

Meaning of frenzy

Noun

frenzy (countable and uncountable, plural frenzies)

  1. A state of wild activity or panic.
    • international media frenzy
  2. A violent agitation of the mind approaching madness; rage.
    • The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling.c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First...

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Forms of phrensy

Noun
pluralphrensies
Verb
third-person singular presentphrensies
present participlephrensying
past participlephrensied
pastphrensied

Questions about phrensy

What is phrensy the obsolete spelling of?
Phrensy is the obsolete spelling of frenzy.

Words near phrensy in the dictionary

  1. phrenosin
  2. phrenospasm
  3. phrenospasms
  4. phrensied
  5. phrensies
  6. phrensy
  7. phrensying
  8. phrentic
  9. phrentick
  10. phrenzied
  11. phrenziedly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: phrensy (page history and authors); frenzy (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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