Explore Delirium through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like craze or disturbance. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Delirium in a sentence
Delirium meaning
- 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.
- Wild, frenzied excitement or ecstasy.
Synonyms of Delirium
Using Delirium
- The main meaning on this page is: 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. | Wild, frenzied excitement or ecstasy.
- Useful related words include: craze, psychological disorder, disturbance, mental disturbance.
- In the example corpus, delirium often appears in combinations such as: and delirium, the delirium, excited delirium.
Context around Delirium
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 6 middle, 10 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Delirium
- In this selection, "delirium" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 22.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, excited, earnest, market, tremens, tremors and confusion stand out and add context to how "delirium" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include about the delirium episode and adrenaline pumping delirium that cascades. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "delirium" sits close to words such as aarp, abdi and abuzz, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with delirium
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
He is vomiting, intense delirium, tremors, violent coughing. (8 words)
His other six siblings include Destiny, Death, Destruction, Desire, Despair, and Delirium. (12 words)
After three days, she miraculously awakened from the coma, remembering nothing about the delirium episode. (15 words)
As the delirium of NIU’s historic upset of Notre Dame fades, one of the questions hanging in the air is whether the Huskies’ victory will translate into more fans in the seats for home football games. (37 words)
As the film moves towards the World’s Fair and the teenage girls attending both the concert and the exhibitions, it loses the raw delirium of Beatlemania, though possibly the film couldn’t exist on that alone. (37 words)
Running at breakneck speed with the thrills coming thick and fast, Mission: Impossible – Fallout is two-and-a-half hours of high-octane, adrenaline-pumping delirium that cascades from one astounding action set piece to the next. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
A condition known as delirium tremens — or DTs — involves agitation, aggression, confusion, trembling, sweating, nausea, vomiting and delusions.
A new powerbase is emerging even as the wailers have resumed their game in earnest delirium.
But time and time again investors put this most basic rule to the test in a kind of bull-market delirium.
Elijah McClain died in Colorado in police custody and these were all cases, allegedly, of excited delirium.
Excited delirium was listed as a cause of death eight times between 2004 to 2012, Kobayashi said after searching his case files.
He is vomiting, intense delirium, tremors, violent coughing.
Henley's own condition colored the process: He was feverish and noted that he experienced periods of delirium while writing the bulk of the lyrics.
His other six siblings include Destiny, Death, Destruction, Desire, Despair, and Delirium.
Law enforcement has used the unofficial diagnosis of "excited delirium" as a rationale for why they use the neck and chemical restraints described above.
The respiratory illness causes symptoms of a common cold as well as intolerable pain, swelling, and delirium.
When prepared or dosed incorrectly, Amanita muscaria mushrooms could lead to side effects like gastrointestinal distress, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, delirium, confusion, seizures, and organ damage.
After three days, she miraculously awakened from the coma, remembering nothing about the delirium episode.
A sort of cinema delirium, it pulses with a vibrant potency that reminds you film can grab you by the throat; I barely breathed, and I loved every second.
As the delirium of NIU’s historic upset of Notre Dame fades, one of the questions hanging in the air is whether the Huskies’ victory will translate into more fans in the seats for home football games.
As the film moves towards the World’s Fair and the teenage girls attending both the concert and the exhibitions, it loses the raw delirium of Beatlemania, though possibly the film couldn’t exist on that alone.
For most of us there comes an inevitable 'delirium drop-off' a couple of years in, when the dopamine subsides – and with it the giddy highs.
He coolly headed the ball home past Silver’s goalkeeper George Chikooka to send Bullets fans into delirium.
My memory isn’t clear and most of the memories that I do have, are of severe delirium.
Running at breakneck speed with the thrills coming thick and fast, Mission: Impossible – Fallout is two-and-a-half hours of high-octane, adrenaline-pumping delirium that cascades from one astounding action set piece to the next.
Schillaci and Baggio both scored in a 2-0 win and were soon hailed as a dream ticket, the headline on the front of Gazzetta Dello Sport reading: "Italy in delirium with Schillaci and Baggio.
Common combinations with delirium
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- and delirium 9×
- the delirium 7×
- excited delirium 6×
- of delirium 5×
- delirium of 5×
- into delirium 5×
- delirium and 5×
- delirium is 4×
- delirium with 3×
- his delirium 3×