FRENZY: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for FRENZY?

Need another word that means the same as “frenzy”? Find 22 synonyms and 30 related words for “frenzy” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Frenzy” are: craze, delirium, fury, hysteria, madness, mania, insanity, derangement, dementedness, feverishness, fever, wildness, distraction, agitation, turmoil, tumult, fit, seizure, paroxysm, spasm, bout, outburst

Frenzy as a Noun

Definitions of "Frenzy" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “frenzy” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• State of violent mental agitation.
• A state or period of uncontrolled excitement or wild behaviour.

Synonyms of "Frenzy" as a noun (22 Words)

agitation	A state of agitation or turbulent change or development. The techniques mostly involve agitation by stirring.
bout	A division during which one team is on the offensive. He fought 350 bouts losing only nine times.
craze	State of violent mental agitation. The new craze for step aerobics.
delirium	A usually brief state of excitement and mental confusion often accompanied by hallucinations. A chorus of delirium from the terrace.
dementedness	Mental deterioration of organic or functional origin.
derangement	A state of mental disturbance and disorientation.
distraction	Extreme agitation of the mind. The firm found passenger travel a distraction from the main business of moving freight.
fever	Intense nervous anticipation. Election fever reaches its climax tomorrow.
feverishness	A rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection.
fit	The particular way in which something especially a garment or component fits. He had a fit.
fury	Extreme strength or violence in an action or a natural phenomenon. Tears of fury and frustration.
hysteria	Excessive or uncontrollable fear. The anti Semitic hysteria of the 1890s.
insanity	Relatively permanent disorder of the mind. It might be pure insanity to take this loan.
madness	Unrestrained excitement or enthusiasm. Poetry is a sort of divine madness.
mania	An irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action. He had a mania for automobiles.
outburst	A sudden intense happening. An outburst of heavy rain.
paroxysm	A sudden attack or outburst of a particular emotion or activity. A paroxysm of giggling.
seizure	The act of taking of a person by force. The seizure of the Assembly building.
spasm	Prolonged involuntary muscle contraction. The airways in the lungs go into spasm.
tumult	A state of confusion or disorder. His personal tumult ended when he began writing songs.
turmoil	A violent disturbance. He endured years of inner turmoil.
wildness	Lack of sound reasoning or probability. Liza had always had a tendency to wildness.

Usage Examples of "Frenzy" as a noun

• Doreen worked herself into a frenzy of rage.

Associations of "Frenzy" (30 Words)

bipolar	Of a person suffering from bipolar disorder. A sharply bipolar division of affluent and underclass.
crazy	Extremely enthusiastic. I m crazy about Cindy.
delirium	Wild excitement or ecstasy. Somewhere a patient shouted in delirium.
enthusiasm	Something that arouses enthusiasm. Enthusiasm for his program is growing.
epilepsy	A disorder of the central nervous system characterized by loss of consciousness and convulsions.
excitement	Something that arouses a feeling of excitement. He could hardly conceal his excitement when she agreed.
fanatic	A person motivated by irrational enthusiasm (as for a cause)–Winston Churchill. A fanatic is one who can t change his mind and won t change the subject.
frantic	Conducted in a hurried, excited, and disorganized way. She was frantic with worry.
frenetic	Excessively agitated; distraught with fear or other violent emotion. A frenetic pace of activity.
frenzied	Affected with or marked by frenzy or mania uncontrolled by reason. The prosecutor s frenzied denunciation of the accused.
fury	Wild or violent anger. Rachel shouted beside herself with fury.
hypersensitive	Having extreme physical sensitivity to particular substances or conditions. Hypersensitive to pollen.
hysteria	Exaggerated or uncontrollable emotion or excitement. The anti Semitic hysteria of the 1890s.
hysterical	Extremely funny. Hysterical laughter.
insane	Very foolish. Insane laughter.
lunatic	Insane and believed to be affected by the phases of the moon. He would be asked to acquiesce in some lunatic scheme.
mad	Make someone mad. Mad at his friend.
mania	An excessive enthusiasm or desire; an obsession. He had a mania for automobiles.
manic	Affected with or marked by frenzy or mania uncontrolled by reason- H.W.Carter. The pace is utterly manic.
neurosis	(in non-technical use) excessive and irrational anxiety or obsession. Freud s two stage account of neurosis.
overwrought	(of a piece of writing or a work of art) too elaborate or complicated in design or construction. A pseudo Gothic church far too overwrought for such a small town.
paranoia	Unjustified suspicion and mistrust of other people. Mild paranoia afflicts all prime ministers.
passionate	Arising from intense feelings of sexual love. Passionate pleas for help.
psychosis	Any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted. They were suffering from a psychosis.
rabid	Of or infected by rabies. Her mother was bitten by a rabid dog.
raving	In a raving manner. Have you gone raving mad.
rushing	The action of moving with urgent haste. Despite all the rushing and hustling we still feel on Christmas there is something wonderful about life.
schizophrenia	Any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact. Gibraltar s schizophrenia continues to be fed by colonial pride.
spinster	An elderly unmarried woman.
zealous	Marked by active interest and enthusiasm. The council was extremely zealous in the application of the regulations.