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məˈnaɪ ə kəlma·ni·a·cal

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. maniacal, maniac(p)adjective

    wildly disordered

    "a maniacal frenzy"

Wiktionary

  1. maniacaladjective

    Like a maniac; insane; frenzied.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Maniac, Maniacaladjective

    Raging with madness; mad to rage.

    Etymology: maniacus, Lat.

    Epilepsies and maniacal lunacies usually conform to the age of the moon. Nehemiah Grew, Cosmol. b. iii.

Wikipedia

  1. maniacal

    Mania, also known as manic syndrome, is a mental and behavioral disorder defined as a state of abnormally elevated arousal, affect, and energy level, or "a state of heightened overall activation with enhanced affective expression together with lability of affect." During a manic episode, an individual will experience rapidly changing emotions and moods, highly influenced by surrounding stimuli. Although mania is often conceived as a "mirror image" to depression, the heightened mood can be either euphoric or dysphoric. As the mania intensifies, irritability can be more pronounced and result in anxiety or anger. The symptoms of mania include elevated mood (either euphoric or irritable), flight of ideas and pressure of speech, increased energy, decreased need and desire for sleep, and hyperactivity. They are most plainly evident in fully developed hypomanic states. However, in full-blown mania, these symptoms become progressively exacerbated. In severe manic episodes, these symptoms may be obscured by other signs and symptoms characteristic of psychosis, such as delusions, hallucinations, fragmentation of behavior, and catatonia.

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  1. maniacal

    Maniacal refers to behavior or actions that are extremely wild, violent, excited, or uncontrolled, often as a result of mental illness. It can also refer to an obsessive enthusiasm or passion towards something.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Maniacaladjective

    affected with, or characterized by, madness; maniac

Wikidata

  1. Maniacal

    Maniacal is the third full-length studio album by the New York crossover thrash band, Sworn Enemy. The album was released in the United States in 2008.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of maniacal in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of maniacal in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of maniacal in a Sentence

  1. Glenn Youngkin:

    [The schools] have a maniacal focus on equal outcomes for all students at all costs. And at the heart of the American dream, is excelling, is advancing, is stretching and recognizing that we have students that have different capabilities, some students have the ability to perform at one level, others need more help, and we have to allow students to run as fast as they can to dream the biggest dreams they can possibly dream and then go get them.

  2. Bill Clinton:

    The American people gave the Congress to a group of very conservative Republicans, when they passed bills with the veto-proof majority with a lot of Democrats voting for it, that I couldn't stop, all of a sudden we turn out to be maniacal deregulators. I mean, come on.

  3. Gary Stibel:

    They have a maniacal focus on cash and results, you've got to be very careful about putting a bull in a china shop unless you're prepared to have a lot of broken glass.

  4. Anthon St Maarten:

    Patience is the antidote to the restless poison of the Ego. Without it we all become ego-maniacal bulls in china shops, destroying our future happiness as we blindly rush in where angels fear to tread. In these out-of-control moments, we bulldoze through the best possible outcomes for our lives, only to return to the scene of the crime later to cry over spilt milk.

  5. John Lennon:

    Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.

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