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tachy- +‎ -phrenia

Noun

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tachyphrenia (uncountable)

  1. (medicine) unusually rapid thought; mental hyperactivity
    • 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
      The thought stream, the stream of consciousness, speeds up in these patients with L-DOPA, often speeding too far, into a veritable tachyphrenia, with thoughts and associations almost too fast to follow.