Meaning of paramaniac | Babel Free
Definitions
- a person suffering from paramania.
- a person who is obsessed with complaining; one who complains.
Examples
“Again, he that has studied the delusions of the paramaniac or the general progressive paretic, must acknowledge how great is the resemblance as regards the double consciousness with its resulting delusions observable in those types of insanity and a certain stage of hypnotism.”
“J. W., age 24, paramaniac was a patient in 1892, when I was a physician at the Insane hospital.”
“She is always confessing to some terrible thing, like being an addict of some sort, a drug addict, a sex addict, a food addict, a chocaholic, an alcoholic, a kleptoholic, a paramaniac obsessive or whatever.”
“Strife today is also created. It generates because it is wished, giving expressions to paramaniac and suicidal tendencies in us.”
“Finally, and most likely, the author was simply an obsessive idiosyncratic paramaniac chirping like a mad canary.”
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.