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rabidity


Meanings
  • noun

    A state of frenzied or uncontrollable excitement or anger.

    - "The crowd went into a rabidity during the rock concert."
    - "His rabidity over the issue caused him to lose his temper."

Rhymes
Words rhyming with rabidity
madness , wildness , craziness , insanity , frenzy
Variants
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rabid , rabidities , rabidity , rabidly , rabidness , rabidnesses
Etymology
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From Old French rabie, from rabir, to be mad, from Latin rabies, fury, madness, rabid.


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  1. Rabidity is also used in medicine to describe a symptom of certain diseases, such as hydrophobia in rabies.

  2. The term 'rabid' is also used to describe someone who is excessively enthusiastic or fanatical about a particular subject.


Related Concepts
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  1. Furor: A Latin term for frenzy or madness, closely related to rabidity.


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In literature, rabidity is often used to describe intense emotions, especially anger or obsession. For example, in Fyodor Dostoevsky's 'Crime and Punishment', the protagonist Raskolnikov exhibits a rabid obsession with the idea of committing a murder.

How to Memorize "rabidity"

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    - Visualize a person or animal in a state of intense excitement or anger.

  2. associate

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  3. mnemonics

    - Remember the etymology: rabies, fury, madness.


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