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paroxysm
noun
(par-ox-ysm)
a sudden uncontrollable attack
Synonyms:
convulsion
,
fit
,
Examples:
A paroxysm of giggling.
Words Related to
paroxysm
!
fit
,
convulsion
,
spasm
,
apoplexy
,
throe
,
frenzy
,
derangement
,
indignation
,
stupor
,
feverishness
,
malignity
,
stupefaction
,
discombobulation
,
lunacies
,
purgation
,
weepiness
,
ghastliness
,
rapine
,
enervation
,
embitterment
,
unquiet
,
apocalypticism
,
grotesqueness
,
threnody
,
tumults
,
desuetude
,
inexorability
,
murderousness
,
biliousness
,
knavery
,
grotesquerie
,
atavism
,
virago
,
jouissance
,
orgy
,
irrationalism
,
barbarisms
,
excrescence
,
hyperreality
,
unreason
,
bloodthirstiness
,
surcease
,
abjection
,
commotions
,
tristesse
,
yawp
,
solipsism
,
ineffectuality
,
perverseness
,
deadness
,
rapture
,
heedlessness
,
inanition
,
hatefulness
,
rictus
,
depravities
,
insensibility
,
outlawry
,
zealotry
,
fearfulness
,
metanoia
,
excoriation
,
weimar republic
,
stultification
,
infuriation
,
cataclysm
,
execration
,
horribleness
,
miasma
,
saturnalia
,
vengefulness
,
incubus
,
messianism
,
complaisance
,
concupiscence
,
romanticization
,
frisson
,
cacophonies
,
ravishment
,
effulgence
,
caesarism
,
irresolution
,
caterwaul
,
foulness
,
cacophonic
,
hysterics
,
degeneracy
,
imprecation
,
monstrousness
,
furtiveness
,
paranoiac
,
reification
,
mindlessness
,
savagery
,
deracination
,
tumescence
,
recrudescence
,
transmogrification
,
vileness
,
catatonia
,
paroxysm
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