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DELERIUM - (plural deliriums, deliria) n 1. MEDICAL temporary mental disturbance: a state marked by extreme restlessness, confusion, and sometimes hallucinations, caused by fever, poisoning, or brain injury 2. great excitement: a condition of extreme excitement or emotion [Mid-16th century. From Latin, formed from delirare 'to be deranged', literally 'to be out of your track', from lira 'ridge between furrows'.