vesania

[医] 躁狂症, 癫狂

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Madness, insanity, mental derangement.

    不可数

    2003: Overall, Cullen defined insanity (‘vesania’) as a nervous disorder. — Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason (Penguin 2004, p. 311)

    1894: American Journal of Insanity (Baltimore, MD), Jul. 1894: It is a morbid condition, consisting of exacerbations of pruriginous sensations in the hairy parts of the body, accompanied by a vesania, that leads the subjects to try to get relief by pulling out the hairs...

词源

Learned borrowing from Latin vēsānia, derived from vēsānus (“mad, insane”).

来源：wiktionary