The vesanias included amentia, melancholia, mania, and oneirodynia.
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"Amentia, " by contrast, is a word we could be hearing more of.
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During their trip to rescue the Pixies, Brandon gets dragged into a marriage with the Princess of Downland, Amentia, but gets rescued.
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Gigmania could lead to amentia, but then, so could a lot of things, including a phobia of the Elster's own coinage, redactophobia, fear of editors and editing.
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In a 1937 essay, Sigmund Freud stated that he considered believing in a single god to be a delusion, His thoughts defining " delusion " perhaps crystallized from the notion of the religion formulations of the common man ( " circa " 1927 ) as " patently infantile, foreign to reality "; around the same year he also stated that religion " comprises a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find in an isolated form nowhere else but amentia, in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion ".