HYPOMANIA Synonyms: 38 Similar and Opposite Words

hypomania

noun

Definition of hypomania

as in schizophrenia

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Recent Examples of hypomania Cycling between periods of mania or hypomania – high energy and excitement – and depression can have an enormous impact on a person’s daily life, work, and relationships. — New Atlas, 4 Mar. 2025 And then fifteen years later, divorce uprooted us all; my family-first ethic hadn’t withstood the episodes of depression and hypomania that, eerily for me, took hold of my husband for a handful of years at midlife. — Megan Marshall, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2025 In general, the hypomania symptoms associated with bipolar 2 may occur at a later age than bipolar 1. — Wendy Wisner, Health, 27 Nov. 2024 Episodes of depression and mania or hypomania (less intense than mania) can cycle with unpredictable timing. — Heidi Moawad, Verywell Health, 18 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for hypomania

Recent Examples of Synonyms for hypomania

Noun

AntiMood stabilizers support people who have mood swings because of conditions such as bipolar disorder, personality disorder and schizophrenia.

— Jen Christensen, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2026
He’d been diagnosed with schizophrenia, his autopsy report said.

— Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of schizophrenia

Noun

The case has thrust the condition of postpartum psychosis into the spotlight, and, in turn, drawn a growing number of supporters to Clancy.

— Liam Quinn, PEOPLE, 1 Sep. 2026
But her attorneys argue the former labor and delivery nurse was suffering from postpartum psychosis at the time, and that poor mental healthcare exacerbated her condition.

— Michael Casey, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of psychosis

Noun

What's your relationship to paparazzi and social media mania, given you’ve been in the spotlight for so long?

— Kalia Richardson, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026
Other moviegoers adored his campy but somehow restrained mania as the butler in Clue, or delighted in his nasty smarm as the concierge in Home Alone 2.

— Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of mania

Noun

Sleep, for instance, isn’t downtime but active maintenance, when the brain flushes out cellular waste in ways that may help stave off dementia.

— Andrea Gawrylewski, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2026
Developed by researchers in the US, the remarkable new treatment could one day be used to treat patients in advanced stages of dementia by restoring the brain’s ability to recover from ongoing neurodegeneration.

— Mike McRae August 30, New Atlas, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of dementia

Noun

But in the common vernacular of what neurosis means—someone whose life is put upon them, who feels weighted by the everyday, who struggles with unadulterated joy—that is me in a nutshell.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 Aug. 2026
Wonders is also terrific, a ball of neuroses and repression, envious of Elliot’s exploits.

— ABC News, ABC News, 29 July 2026