lypemania
Examples
“Victorian women who weren’t locked up for falling victim to lypemania (melancholy), monomania, homicidal monomania or “moral insanity” were at risk⟳ of neurasthenia, a “mirror image of rebellion” in which their “nervous depletion” was explained as the result⟳ of their “incursion into the masculine sphere of intellectual labor,” a strain⟳ that constitutions formed for tender sentiment couldn’t be expected to support⟳.”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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