hypomania
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English
Etymology
From hypo- + -mania, after German Hypomanie.
Pronunciation
Noun
hypomania (countable and uncountable, plural hypomanias)
- (medicine) A mild form of mania, especially the phase of several mood disorders characterized by euphoria or hyperactivity.
- 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 197:
- She was lovely beyond all others, this Jewish dervish, with her sense of space and history, her echo-box of racial memories, her gallant hypomania.
Translations
mild form of mania
Further reading
- “hypomania”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Finnish
Etymology
Internationalism (see German Hypomanie).
Pronunciation
Noun
hypomania
Declension
| Inflection of hypomania (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | hypomania | hypomaniat | |
| genitive | hypomanian | hypomanioiden hypomanioitten | |
| partitive | hypomaniaa | hypomanioita | |
| illative | hypomaniaan | hypomanioihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | hypomania | hypomaniat | |
| accusative | nom. | hypomania | hypomaniat |
| gen. | hypomanian | ||
| genitive | hypomanian | hypomanioiden hypomanioitten hypomaniain rare | |
| partitive | hypomaniaa | hypomanioita | |
| inessive | hypomaniassa | hypomanioissa | |
| elative | hypomaniasta | hypomanioista | |
| illative | hypomaniaan | hypomanioihin | |
| adessive | hypomanialla | hypomanioilla | |
| ablative | hypomanialta | hypomanioilta | |
| allative | hypomanialle | hypomanioille | |
| essive | hypomaniana | hypomanioina | |
| translative | hypomaniaksi | hypomanioiksi | |
| abessive | hypomaniatta | hypomanioitta | |
| instructive | — | hypomanioin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Further reading
- “hypomania”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02