Definizione monolingua

paroxysm

paroxysm (plural paroxysms)

1. A random or sudden outburst (of activity).
   • «There, on the soft sand, a few feet away from our elders, we would sprawl all morning, in a petrified paroxysm of desire, and take advantage of every blessed quirk in space and time to touch each other [...] » - Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, 1955
   • Indeed in his excitement at this breakthrough he inadvertently dug his nails into the nurses bottom, a gesture she misinterpreted, so that he had to suffer a paroxysm of breasts and loins in response. - John Fowles, Mantissa, 1983
2. A sudden recurrence of a disease.

Definizione dizionario paroxysm

attacco

parossismo

Altri significati:

A sudden recurrence of a disease.

random or sudden outburst

sudden recurrence of a disease

A random or sudden outburst (of activity).