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Definition of Hypomania
1. Noun. (medicine) A mild form of mania, especially the phase of several mood disorders characterized by euphoria or hyperactivity. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hypomania
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Medical Definition of Hypomania
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Hypomania
Literary usage of Hypomania
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Clinical Manual of Mental Diseases by Francis Xavier Dercum (1917)
"hypomania forms a well-marked clinical entity; however, there are transitional
forms between it and mania proper; sometimes it is a prelude to the latter. ..."
2. Clinical psychiatry by Emil Kraepelin, Allen Ross Diefendorf (1907)
"MANIC STATES The manic states comprise hypomania, mania, and delirious mania.
hypomania represents the mildest form of the manic states, ..."
3. Text-book of Psychiatry: A Psychological Study of Insanity for Practitioners by Emanuel Mendel (1907)
"hypomania (Mendel), the mildest degree of mania. ... It may show the type of
hypomania, that of typical mania, also with heightening to frenzy. ..."
4. Therapeutic Gazette (1905)
"hypomania often presents to the physician numerous practical difficulties, ...
Cases of hypomania, especially when occurring in women, often present great ..."
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