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Meaning of "hypomania" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HYPOMANIA

hypomania  [ˌhaɪpəʊˈmeɪnɪə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HYPOMANIA

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Hypomania is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HYPOMANIA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Hypomania

Hypomania is a mood state characterized by persistent disinhibition and pervasive elevated or irritable mood, as well as thoughts and behaviors that are consistent with such a mood state. It is most often associated with the bipolar spectrum. Many who are in a hypomanic state are extremely energetic, talkative, and confident. They may have a flight of ideas and feel creative. Many people also experience signature hypersexuality. While hypomania often generates productivity and creativity, it can become troublesome if the subject engages in risky behaviors. It is generally less severe than full mania.

Definition of hypomania in the English dictionary

The definition of hypomania in the dictionary is an abnormal condition of extreme excitement, milder than mania but characterized by great optimism and overactivity and often by reckless spending of money.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HYPOMANIA


Anglomania
ˌæŋɡləʊˈmeɪnɪə
bibliomania
ˌbɪblɪəʊˈmeɪnɪə
decalcomania
dɪˌkælkəˈmeɪnɪə
dipsomania
ˌdɪpsəʊˈmeɪnɪə
egomania
ˌiːɡəʊˈmeɪnɪə
erotomania
ɪˌrɒtəʊˈmeɪnɪə
kleptomania
ˌklɛptəʊˈmeɪnɪə
leishmania
liːʃˈmeɪnɪə
mania
ˈmeɪnɪə
megalomania
ˌmɛɡələʊˈmeɪnɪə
melomania
ˌmɛləˈmeɪnɪə
monomania
ˌmɒnəʊˈmeɪnɪə
nymphomania
ˌnɪmfəˈmeɪnɪə
pyromania
ˌpaɪrəʊˈmeɪnɪə
Romania
rəʊˈmeɪnɪə
Roumania
ruːˈmeɪnɪə
Rumania
ruːˈmeɪnɪə
Tasmania
tæzˈmeɪnɪə
technomania
ˌtɛknəʊˈmeɪnɪə
zoomania
ˌzəʊəˈmeɪnɪə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HYPOMANIA

hypogynous
hypogyny
hypoid gear
hypokalemia
hypokalemic
hypolimnia
hypolimnion
Hypolydian
hypomagnesaemia
hypomagnesemia
hypomanic
hypomenorrhea
hypomenorrhoea
hypomixolydian
hypomorph
hypomorphic
hyponastic
hyponastically
hyponasty
hyponatraemia

WORDS THAT END LIKE HYPOMANIA

cleptomania
demonomania
dinomania
eleutheromania
graphomania
hydromania
hypermania
hysteromania
Lithuania
metromania
morphinomania
mythomania
necromania
Obamamania
orchidomania
petalomania
potichomania
theomania
toxicomania
tulipomania
xenomania

Synonyms and antonyms of hypomania in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «hypomania» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HYPOMANIA

Find out the translation of hypomania to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of hypomania from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «hypomania» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

轻躁狂
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

hipomanía
570 millions of speakers

English

hypomania
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

hypomania
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

هوس خفيف
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

гипомании
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

hipomania
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

hypomania
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

hypomanie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Hipomania
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Hypomanie
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

軽躁病
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

경조증
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Hipomania
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hưng cảm nhẹ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

hypomania
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

लबाडी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

hipomani
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ipomania
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

hipomanii
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

гипомании
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

hipomanie
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

υπομανίας
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

hipomanie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

hypomani
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

hypomani
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of hypomania

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HYPOMANIA»

The term «hypomania» is regularly used and occupies the 58.953 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HYPOMANIA» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about hypomania

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HYPOMANIA»

Discover the use of hypomania in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hypomania and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Hypomania Handbook: The Challenge of Elevated Mood
This practical, clinically oriented handbook provides up-to-date information on the concept, causality, diagnosis, and pharmacologic and behavioral treatment of hypomania, an increasingly recognized stage of bipolar illness often referred ...
Christopher M. Doran, 2007
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The Hypomanic Edge: The Link Between (A Little) Craziness ...
These are the real stories you never learned in school about some of those men who made America: Columbus, who discovered the continent, thought he was the messiah.
John D. Gartner, 2008
3
Hypomania
In some patients, hypomania stands alone. Is that state a disorder? How hereditary is upbeat personality? And where should we draw the line between disease and temperament? Joining us to day to offer their theories are Dr. Sheri Johnson, ...
Lichtenstein Creative Media
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Mood Disorders: A Practical Guide
It is worth noting that hypomania itself does not often require treatment per se. However, it is almost always preceded or followed by a major depressive episode, and thus the mood cycling as a whole merits mood-stabilizing treatment. Mania ...
S. Nassir Ghaemi, 2007
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Beyond Bipolar: 7 Steps to Wellness
Fueling even the early mood clues of mania will encourage mood regulation to get farther out of whack. Slowing down provides an escape from mania. It also has a positive impact on depression that may follow mania. Hypomania and Bipolar ...
Jane Mountain, 2007
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The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for Bipolar ...
This is known as hypomania, and people tend to experience these episodes more often than manic episodes for two reasons: full-blown manic episodes tend to be less common, and hypomania often comes before full-blown mania in people ...
Sheri Van Dijk, 2009
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The Human Dimension of Depression: A Practical Guide to ...
Insight Both hypomania and depression can go unidentified, but while depression often goes unidentified because it is hidden, hypomania more often goes unidentified because it is ego-syntonic and enjoyable. A patient who bought two ...
Martin Kantor, 1992
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The Everything Health Guide To Adult Bipolar Disorder: ...
Hypomania The relatively minor manic episodes seen in Bipolar II are called hypomanic. Essentially, many of the same areas are affected as in mania, but the difference is in degree. Instead of feeling utterly euphoric, the person having a ...
Jon P. Bloch, Jeffrey Naser, 2006
9
Bipolar II Disorder: Modelling, Measuring and Managing
Hypomania poses both a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge (Judd et al., 2005 ). Pure hypomania in BP II is relatively infrequent compared with depression; patients experience depressive symptoms 3–39 times more often than hypomanic ...
Gordon Parker, 2012
10
Clinical Manual of Geriatric Psychiatry
Hypomania. and. Mania. The treatment of signs and symptoms of elevated mood (including reduced need for sleep, irritability, distractibility, hyperactivity, pressured speech, flight of ideas, circumstantiality and tangentiality, grandiosity, ...
James E. Spar, Asenath La Rue, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HYPOMANIA»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term hypomania is used in the context of the following news items.
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Report highlights extent of inappropriate prescribing in adults with …
Antidepressants were prescribed in 16.9% of cases; drugs used for mania or hypomania in 7.1% of cases; anxiolytics in 4.2% of cases and ... «The Pharmaceutical Journal, Jul 15»
2
Children with psychiatric problems more likely to have dysfunctional …
... disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder and PTSD; major depression, dysthymia, mania and hypomania; and conduct disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, ... «Healio, Jul 15»
3
Being Bipolar Improved My Sex Life
Hypomania is slightly less extreme than full-on mania, giving you all of the euphoria with less danger. So imagine having a project at work ... «Madame Noire, Jul 15»
4
Seeking Better Ways to Treat the Lows of Bipolar Disorder
... for Bipolar Disorders say that for patients with a history of mania or hypomania, antidepressants should be prescribed only in conjunction with ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
5
10 Ways to Curb Mania and Hypomania
Even in Bipolar II, where the hypomania is less destabilizing than the often-psychotic manic episodes of Bipolar I, persons often experience ... «Everyday Health, Jul 15»
6
Pharma Make The Most of A Negative Result
Similarly, armodafinil 150 mg was associated with a numerically greater risk of mania, hypomania, headache, nausea, insomnia, coronary ... «Discover Magazine, Jun 15»
7
Truncating mutation in intracellular phospholipase A 1 gene …
Other features like hypomania, a psychiatric anomaly of extreme excitement, visual impairments like strabismus or nerve optic hypoplasia, and ... «BMC Blogs Network, Jun 15»
8
Devon postman stole cash from birthday cards
"What he ended up doing was he started taking Codeine. It got to the stage where he wasn't thinking straight and got to the stage of hypomania. «Plymouth Herald, Jun 15»
9
STAWAR: Shopping: A vacation recreation
Psychologists call this state “hypomania,” which means just short of being manic. Most people, however, just think of it “being on the vacation ... «Newsandtribune, Jun 15»
10
Men on Hooks: The Origin of Modern Psychiatric Diagnostic Systems
Other collections of correlated deviations from the magnificent standard of the globe-man were noted and named: psychopathy, hypomania, ... «Mad In America, Jun 15»

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