Frenetic
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"Marquis de Sade, ce frénétique et abominable assemblage de tous les crimes et de toutes les saletés."--Les Mémoires du Diable (1838) by Frédéric Soulié |
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- fast, frantic, harried, or frenzied
- After a week of working at a frenetic pace, she was ready for Saturday.
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Etymology
From Old French frenetike, from Latin phreneticus, from Ancient Greek φρενητικός (phrenētikos, “delirious”), from φρενῖτις (phrenitis, “delirium”), from φρήν (phrēn, “mind”). Compare frantic.
From Middle English, from Old French frenesie, from Latin phrenesis, from Ancient Greek *φρένησις (*phrénēsis), a later equivalent of φρενῖτις (phrenîtis, “inflammation of the brain”): see frantic and frenetic.
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