frenzy

Meanings

1. A state of wild activity or panic.
2. A violent agitation of the mind approaching madness; rage.

1. Mad; frantic.

1. To render frantic.
2. To exhibit a frenzy, such as a feeding frenzy.

Etymology

From Middle English frensy, frenesie, from Old French frenesie, from Latin phrenesis, from Ancient Greek *φρένησις (*phrénēsis), a later equivalent of φρενῖτις (phrenîtis, “inflammation of the brain”): see frantic and frenetic. Doublet of phrenesis.