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hypomania

hypomania

English

Noun

hypomania (countable and uncountable, plural hypomanias)

  1. (medicine) A mild form of mania, especially the phase of several mood disorders characterized by euphoria or hyperactivity.
    • 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber 1992, p. 197:
      She was lovely beyond all others, this Jewish dervish, with her sense of space and history, her echo-box of racial memories, her gallant hypomania.

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