delirium

As the age’s potent mix of terror and delirium spun on, designers and illustrators proposed ways to live comfortably in space, underwater or in underground bunkers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Older patients or people with certain health conditions can experience neurocognitive issues after anesthesia, including memory or concentration problems, or postoperative delirium.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026

Those who’ve managed to come out of this new kind of tech-enabled delirium have learned how vital it is to stay in touch with the natural world and their natural instincts.

From Slate ● Feb. 2, 2026

She channels all of Nina’s prior faux delirium into a ferocious finale that raises the stakes tenfold.

From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2026

The wild delirium she felt might have been lack of sleep combined with too much coffee.

From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner

The 4th century church father Jerome called them "deliria."

From Time Magazine Archive

During Luther's life and afterwards I rejected these Stoic and Manichean deliria, when Luther and others wrote: All works, good and bad, in all men, good and bad, must occur as they do.

From Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by F. (Friedrich) Bente

Pronounced mental disorder occurs rarely in tuberculosis, according to Ziehen, and leads either to melancholia or to hallucinatory states of excitement, resembling the deliria of exhaustion or inanition.

From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various

A similar explanation is made readily enough in cases of evident bodily disease, even where mental symptoms are prominent, for it is no longer the custom to speak of demon-possession even in the acute deliria.

From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various

If stupor be a psychobiological reaction, it should occur, occasionally, in organic conditions just as the deliria of typhoid fever may contain many psychogenic elements.

From Benign Stupors A Study of a New Manic-Depressive Reaction Type by John T. (John Thompson) MacCurdy

Critics called the product’s most notable side effect “delirium” and warned that these deliriums could have catastrophic effects on children, the elderly, or the immunocompromised.

From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2021

Is this the book that launched a thousand quips, and stirred the orators to deliriums of denunciation?

From Time Magazine Archive

On the evening of the second day, the girl—the one who Goddard said was so important—came into his room in between deliriums.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

Now, sir, this miserable object was religiously angry with herself and aw the world; had nai comfort but in metaphysical visions, and supernatural deliriums; ha, ha, ha!

From The Man of the World (1792) by Charles Macklin

Some, by the light of crumbling, resinous gums, In the still hollows of old pagan dens, Call thee in aid to their deliriums O Bacchus! cajoler of ancient pains.

From Silverpoints by John Gray