lypemania

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lypemania

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archaic, uncountable melancholy, mournfulness Victorian women who weren’t locked up for falling victim to lypemania (melancholy), monomania, homicidal monomania or “moral insanity” were at risk of neurasthenia, a “mirror image of rebellion” in which their “nervous depletion” was explained as the result of their “incursion into the masculine sph

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@misc{lypemania_2026,
  title = {lypemania},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/lypemania},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}