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Meaning of paramania | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

An uncontrollable urge to complain.

uncountable

Examples

“Diagnoses were listed primarily as variant forms of mania, e.g., acute, sub-acute, chronic, recurrent, and pure paramania”
“He likes protests, all kinds. I think there's a scientific term for that: paramania.”
“Among the basic symptoms that he considered to be rather specific and permanent, he included four groups. The first was derived from dissociation of thinking (incoherence, condensation of ideas, tendency to stereotypic thinking, poverty of ideas and other thinking disorders); the second group was derived from inappropriate affect (absence of or blunted affect, paraphrenia and paramania); the third was derived from ambivalence (in sentiments, volition, and cognition); the fourth group comprised all the descriptive features of autism.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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