History of Psychology Words

Not listed. Researcher's notes: Frenetic, frenzy, and frantic all belong to the same group of words and have Greek roots. One occasionally sees still used an older spelling of the word, phrenetic. While Cawdrey does not include frenetic (or phrenetic) in his list of words, he does define phrensie: “g. madness.”

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(Greek) possessed with a phrensie, i. a certain kind of madnesse, arising from an inflammation of the membranes of the brain.