2. Noun. A person afflicted with hypomania. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hypomanic
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hypomanic
Literary usage of Hypomanic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Assessment and Treatment of Patients With Coexisting Mental Illness and by Richard Ries (1996)
"A hypomanic episode is a period (weeks or months) of pathologically ...
hypomanic episodes are not severe enough to cause marked impairment in social or ..."
2. Depression in Primary Care: Detection and Diagnosi by DIANE Publishing Company (1993)
"hypomanic episodes are similar to, but milder than, manic episodes. Some patients
with bipolar I (with mania) or bipolar II (with hypomania) disorder ..."
3. Treatment of Depression edited by Cynthia D. Mulrow (2000)
"Bipolar disorders are characterized by the occurrence of one or more manic,
hypomanic or mixed episodes. Episodes of elevated mood interspersed with major ..."
4. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1914)
"In patients who developed manic depressive insanity, it has been found that in
a considerable number either hypomanic or depressive tendencies are found to ..."
5. The Kingdom of Evils: Psychiatric Social Work Presented in One Hundred Case by Elmer Ernest Southard, Mary Cromwell Jarrett (1922)
"His activities were rather typical of the hypomanic—frequent changes of ...
Robert MacPherson (case 85) is another example of the hypomanic condition. ..."
6. The Modern Treatment of Nervous and Mental Diseases by William Alanson White, Smith Ely Jelliffe (1913)
"Many cases set down as paranoid, persecutory and litigation psychoses, unquestionably
show the stigmata of the hypomanic constitution, expressed sometimes ..."
7. Review of Neurology and Psychiatry (1905)
"A series of secondary symptoms thus develop round the hypomanic nucleus, and
confuse the picture. Cases of chronic mania are not rare, but are often ..."
8. Acute Epidemic Encephalitis (lethargic Encephalitis): An Investigation by by Walter Timme (1921)
"It stood between the vacuous and the empty euphoria and hypomanic good humor of
the hypomanic state. The patients felt fine, like new-born ..."
Other Resources:
