Meanings
plural paramaniacs
- a person suffering from paramania.
J. W., age 24, paramaniac was a patient in 1892, when I was a physician at the Insane hospital.
1895, The Kansas City Medical Index-lancet - Volume 16, page 352 more examples
Again, he that has studied the delusions of the paramaniac or the general progressive paretic, must acknowledge how great is the resemblance as regards the double consciousness with its resulting delusions observable in those types of insanity and a certain stage of hypnotism.
1890, The Epitome of MedicineShe is always confessing to some terrible thing, like being an addict of some sort, a drug addict, a sex addict, a food addict, a chocaholic, an alcoholic, a kleptoholic, a paramaniac obsessive or whatever.
2003, Dotun Adebayo, West Side Stories, →ISBN, page 84 - a person who is obsessed with complaining; one who complains.
Finally, and most likely, the author was simply an obsessive idiosyncratic paramaniac chirping like a mad canary.
2009, Mathew Kinsella, The California Tales: A Novel, →ISBN1 more example
Strife today is also created. It generates because it is wished, giving expressions to paramaniac and suicidal tendencies in us.
1977, Oh Calcutta - Volume 6, page 31
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Rhymes with paramaniac
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