What part of speech is delirium?

Delirium can be categorized as a noun.

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Parts of speech

Inflections

Noun

What does delirium mean?

Definitions

Noun

delirium - a usually brief state of excitement and mental confusion often accompanied by hallucinations
delirium - state of violent mental agitation

Examples of delirium

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1. noun Delirium of one person is called madness. Delirium of thousands of people is called religion.
2. noun We don't help racists to promote their delirium caused by ignorance and stupidity.
3. noun There's a widespread delirium.
4. noun On the inquest it was shown that Buck Fanshaw, in the delirium of a wasting typhoid fever, had taken arsenic, shot himself through the body, cut his throat, and jumped out of a four-story window and broken his neck—and after due deliberation, the jury, sad and tearful, but with intelligence unblinded by its sorrow, brought in a verdict of death "by the visitation of God." What could the world do without juries?
5. noun It's all part of his narcissistic delirium.
6. noun In the throes of delirium, Tom claimed that he was not Tom, but the king of Spain.
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Delirium of one person is called madness. Delirium of thousands of people is called religion.
We don't help racists to promote their delirium caused by ignorance and stupidity.
There's a widespread delirium.
On the inquest it was shown that Buck Fanshaw, in the delirium of a wasting typhoid fever, had taken arsenic, shot himself through the body, cut his throat, and jumped out of a four-story window and broken his neck—and after due deliberation, the jury, sad and tearful, but with intelligence unblinded by its sorrow, brought in a verdict of death "by the visitation of God." What could the world do without juries?
It's all part of his narcissistic delirium.
In the throes of delirium, Tom claimed that he was not Tom, but the king of Spain.

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