Word.ws English Dictionary

tachyphrenia

tachyphrenia noun: unusually rapid thought; mental hyperactivity.

Noun

tachyphrenia (uncountable)

  1. unusually rapid thought; mental hyperactivity
    • The thought stream, the stream of consciousness, speeds up in these patients with L-DOPA, often speeding too far, into a veritable tachyphrenia, with thoughts and associations almost too fast to follow.1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings

tachyphrenia meaning in Tamil

tachyphrenia in Tamil

உளஇயக்க மிகைப்பு, மிகை இயக்க உள்ளம்

Origin of tachyphrenia

From tachy- + -phrenia.

Questions about tachyphrenia

What does tachyphrenia mean?
Tachyphrenia means unusually rapid thought; mental hyperactivity.
What is tachyphrenia in Tamil?
Tachyphrenia in Tamil is உளஇயக்க மிகைப்பு, மிகை இயக்க உள்ளம். See Tachyphrenia meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is tachyphrenia?
Tachyphrenia is a noun.

Words near tachyphrenia in the dictionary

  1. tachypacing
  2. tachyphagia
  3. tachyphemia
  4. tachyphemic
  5. tachyphrasia
  6. tachyphrenia
  7. tachyphylactic
  8. tachyphylaxes
  9. tachyphylaxis
  10. tachyplegin
  11. tachyplesin

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tachyphrenia (page history and authors); tachyphrenia (Tamil Wiktionary) (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: “tachyphrenia.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/tachyphrenia. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.