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