tachyphrenia

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noun

unusually rapid thought; mental hyperactivity

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Meanings

nountachyphrenia (uncountable)
  1. uncountablemedicineunusually rapid thought; mental hyperactivity

    The thought stream, the stream of consciousness, speeds up in these patients with L-DOPA, often speeding too far, into a veritable tachyphrenia, with thoughts and associations almost too fast to follow.

    1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings

Origin

From tachy- + -phrenia.

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