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Definition of Crisis
1. Noun. An unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty. "They went bankrupt during the economic crisis"
Generic synonyms: Situation
Attributes: Critical, Noncritical, Noncrucial
Derivative terms: Critical
2. Noun. A crucial stage or turning point in the course of something. "After the crisis the patient either dies or gets better"
Specialized synonyms: Emergency, Exigency, Pinch
Derivative terms: Critical
Definition of Crisis
1. n. The point of time when it is to be decided whether any affair or course of action must go on, or be modified or terminate; the decisive moment; the turning point.
Definition of Crisis
1. Noun. A crucial or decisive point or situation; a turning point. ¹
2. Noun. An unstable situation, in political, social, economic or military affairs, especially one involving an impending abrupt change. ¹
3. Noun. A sudden change in the course of a disease, usually at which the patient is expected to recover or die. ¹
4. Noun. (psychology) A traumatic or stressful change in a person's life. ¹
5. Noun. (drama) A point in a drama at which a conflict reaches a peak before being resolved. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Crisis
1. a crucial turning point [n CRISES] : CRISIC [adj]
Medical Definition of Crisis
1. A sudden paroxysmal intensification of symptoms in the course of a disease. Origin: L., Gr. Krisis This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crisis
Literary usage of Crisis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life and Writings of Thomas Paine by Thomas Paine, Daniel Edwin Wheeler (1908)
"179 To the People of England crisis NUMBER VIII - *17 Address to the People of
... 270 On the King of England's Speech crisis NUMBER XII - - 309 On the ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1870)
"Fah., which occurred at the crisis of the first relapse. ... 1868, and up to
February, 18(19, in one case the disease terminated without crisis. ..."
3. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Reeve (1900)
"crisis OF THE ELECTION The Election may be considered as a national crisis—Why?—Passions
of the people—Anxiety of the President—Calm which succeeds the ..."
4. The Yale Review by Yale University, George Park Fisher, George Burton Adams, Henry Walcott Farnam, Arthur Twining Hadley, John Christopher Schwab, William Fremont Blackman, Edward Gaylord Bourne, Irving Fisher, Henry Crosby Emery, Wilbur Lucius Cross (1903)
"THE ECONOMIC crisis IN GERMANY. I. A /f OST of the states of Europe are suffering
at the present •L* A time under an unusually severe crisis, ..."
5. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"Vascular crisis (Spasm) "Vascular crisis" is a term which was introduced very
largely ... Vascular spasm or crisis explain the sensory symptoms included in ..."
6. Latin America Today by Pablo González Casanova (1993)
"Economy and crisis Pedro Vuskovic I. The signs of the crisis. Recent evolution
of Latin American economies It is now generally acknowledged that the ..."
7. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians (1909)
"Such a result was not surprising, for Belgium had been passing through a most
serious industrial and financial crisis since 1843. ..."
8. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1898)
"These articles are thirteen in number, exclusive of a 'crisis Extraordinary' and
a 'Supernumerary crisis.' The first and most famous, puo- lished in the ..."
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