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Meaning of "paroxysmic" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PAROXYSMIC

paroxysmic  [ˌpærəkˈsɪzmɪk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PAROXYSMIC

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Paroxysmic is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PAROXYSMIC


algorismic
ˌælɡəˈrɪzmɪk
aseismic
eɪˈsaɪzmɪk
cataclysmic
ˌkætəˈklɪzmɪk
coseismic
kəʊˈsaɪzmɪk
cosmic
ˈkɒzmɪk
cytoplasmic
ˌsaɪtəʊˈplæzmɪk
endoplasmic
ˌɛndəʊˈplæzmɪk
erethismic
ˌɛrɪˈθɪzmɪk
isoseismic
ˌaɪsəʊˈsaɪzmɪk
microcosmic
ˌmaɪkrəʊˈkɒzmɪk
microseismic
ˌmaɪkrəʊˈsaɪzmɪk
multiorgasmic
ˌmʌltɪɔːˈɡæzmɪk
organismic
ˌɔːɡənˈɪzmɪk
orgasmic
ɔːˈɡæzmɪk
osmic
ˈɒzmɪk
protoplasmic
ˌprəʊtəʊˈplæzmɪk
sarcoplasmic
ˌsɑːkəʊˈplæzmɪk
seismic
ˈsaɪzmɪk
strabismic
strəˈbɪzmɪk
trismic
ˈtrɪzmɪk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PAROXYSMIC

paroquet
parore
parosmia
parotic
parotid
parotid gland
parotiditic
parotiditis
parotis
parotitic
parotitis
parotoid
parotoid gland
parousia
paroxetine
paroxysm
paroxysmal
paroxysmally
paroxytone
paroxytonic

WORDS THAT END LIKE PAROXYSMIC

anosmic
archiplasmic
archoplasmic
axoplasmic
cataclasmic
chasmic
deutoplasmic
ectoplasmic
embolismic
exosmic
fantasmic
hyaloplasmic
idioplasmic
macrocosmic
nucleoplasmic
pancosmic
phantasmic
plasmic
tenesmic
toxoplasmic

Synonyms and antonyms of paroxysmic in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «paroxysmic» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PAROXYSMIC

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

Translator English - Chinese

paroxysmic
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

paroxysmic
570 millions of speakers

English

paroxysmic
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

paroxysmic
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

paroxysmic
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

paroxysmic
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

paroxísticos
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

paroxysmic
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

paroxysmique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Paroxysmic
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

paroxysmic
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

paroxysmic
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

paroxysmic
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Paroxysmic
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

paroxysmic
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

paroxysmic
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

श्लेष्मल त्वचेचा क्षोभ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

paroxysmic
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

parossistica
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

paroxysmic
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

paroxysmic
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

paroxysmic
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

παροξυσμού
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

paroxysmic
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

paroxysmic
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

paroxysmic
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of paroxysmic

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PAROXYSMIC»

The term «paroxysmic» is barely ever used and occupies the 204.417 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PAROXYSMIC» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PAROXYSMIC»

Discover the use of paroxysmic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to paroxysmic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Breaks and Outbreaks: A Paroxysmic, Penological Panorama, ...
This program from the Legislative Correspondents' Association annual dinner includes the menu of the dinner; a list of toasts; the lyrics to songs, many of them satirical parodies written for the occasion; and a list of the officers of the ...
Legislative Correspondents' Association of the State of New York, Legislative Correspondents' Association of the State of New York. Meeting, 1930
2
Reconstructive Surgery in Hand Mutilation
Paroxysmic algohallucinosis attacks are, however, more likely to respond to antiepileptic medication. Carbamazepine should be prescribed first. When this cannot be done, we relieve the patient with 250 to 500 mg of Pentothal infusion over 3 ...
Guy Foucher, 1997
3
A Historical Dictionary of Psychiatry
Paroxysmic attacks of panic (1873). Maurice Krishaber (1836–1883), a Hungarian physician practicing in Paris, described patients who “are taken out of the blue . . . with a peculiar sensation in the head, 'like a flush [bouffée] or a rising wave'; ...
Edward Shorter, 2005
4
Suffering Witness: The Quandary of Responsibility after the ...
At this level of response, the articulation of one's responsibility before the face of the other is, to use the term from Neher, paroxysmic: the very recoil from the other's claim upon one only makes the claim more acute. In the wake of this claim , ...
James Hatley, 2012
5
The Lyre of Orpheus: Popular Music, the Sacred, and the Profane
... capacity to withstand and integrate transgression, disorder, the unconscious, the fantastic, the demonic and the monstrous. As I will argue of popular music, the festival constitutes a cathartic, paroxysmic eruption of collective excess.60 Read  ...
Christopher Partridge, 2013
6
Critical Reviews in Biomedical Engineering
There exists a particular kind of a specific paroxysmic discharge in petit mal epilepsy, called the "3/ sec spike-and-wave" complex, where both the spike and the wave components are prominent (Figure 3). Usually, 3/sec paroxysmic discharges ...
‎1983
7
Cybernetics and Computing Technology
The EEGs were produced with an Alvar electroencephalograph (42 curves for the group with paroxysmic activity and 91 for the control group). Data were processed on a BESM-6 computer at the Computer Center of the Institute of ...
‎1989
8
South African Journal of Geology: Being the Transactions of ...
Some of his interpretations are indeed tentative, as correlations between the early (278 - 258 Ma) paroxysmic ages and sediment types or depositional environments only become viable if it can be demonstrated that the folding had a surface ...
‎1991
9
Poetics of Cinema
... woman's face peeps uncomprehendingly, a jarring frame exit exaggerated by proximity to us and the accelerating effects of the wide-angle lens: This is pure Reinert, a kind of paroxysmic summation of the abnormalities of his mise- enscène.
David Bordwell, 2012
10
Melancholy Drift: Marking Time in Chinese Cinema
... figure from Chinese popular cinema; the unmotivated musical sequences interspersed throughout The Hole (Dong, 1998), reminiscent of both the American film musical and Hong Kong musicals of the 1950s and 1960s; and the paroxysmic, ...
Jean Ma, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PAROXYSMIC»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term paroxysmic is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Society Diary: Oxfam launches pee-power toilet, Pickles jars sector …
What's really interesting is that it has thrown the whole of online media – including Diary – into an involuntary paroxysmic spasm of blogging ... «Civil Society Media, Mar 15»
2
The Carlton few
She throws off her blazer and launches into paroxysmic dance moves, seizing the microphone stand. It's poor-quality video, oversaturated in ... «The Saturday Paper, Feb 15»
3
Three Paroxystic Trios from Ellipsis
For meanings both medical or non-, 'paroxysmal' is the adjective form in OED, AHD, and MW; OED gives paroxysmic as a rare variant. «The Boston Musical Intelligencer, Dec 14»
4
In praise of Pakistan: a team I love to watch but am at a loss to explain
Is anyone in cricket rewarded for their suffering with such exquisite performances and such paroxysmic peaks of pleasure as the Pakistan fan? «The Guardian, Oct 14»
5
The Gang's All Here review – Philip French on Busby Berkeley at his …
... extravagant, fantastical world, most spectacularly in what James Agee called Berkeley's “paroxysmic production numbers” involving Miranda. «The Guardian, Sep 14»
6
Daniel Bensaïd: An Impatient Life, A Memoir
“We were in a hurry,” he writes, and with others he developed theoretical reference points of “an (ultra-) Leninism, dominated by the paroxysmic ... «International Viewpoint, May 14»
7
The changing idiom of Indian politics
... just the day before and drives them to embrace arch rivals, in a paroxysmic desire to serve the people. Such is the effect of this terrible ague. «Times of India, Apr 14»
8
Casey Warr works steel on a large scale to focus on the minute
Paroxysmic," steel, 12 feet by 10 feet by 10 feet – currently on exhibition at Art Post Austin in Austin. "My Catharsis," steel, 15 feet by 13 feet by ... «ABQ Journal, Oct 13»
9
The Chemical Brothers Invade Movie Theaters for a One Night Stand
... Adam Smith that are so visually striking they should come with the type of warnings routinely preceding paroxysmic video games. «NextMovie, Jan 12»
10
The Spare Room, by Helen Garner
Life and death, host and guest, engage in a bitter, paroxysmic agon, transgressing taboos. Helen's house becomes a force-field of grief, trauma, ... «Independent, Jul 08»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Paroxysmic [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/paroxysmic>. May 2024 ».
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