hypomania
noun
hypomania is a noun meaning “A mild form of mania, especially the phase of several mood disorders characterized by euphoria or hyperactivity” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-Y-P-O-M-A-N-I-A, and it appears about once in every 17 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of hypomania is hypomanias.
What does hypomania mean?
noun
- 1
A mild form of mania, especially the phase of several mood disorders characterized by euphoria or hyperactivity.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce hypomania?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-hypomania.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of hypomania
- hypomanias plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is hypomania?
Hypomania appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 122,704th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Hypomania in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense mild form of mania:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | hypomanie |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does hypomania come from?
From hypo- + -mania, after German Hypomanie.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).