Meanings (ES + gloss)
delirio
A temporary mental state with a sudden onset, usually reversible, including symptoms of confusion, inability to concentrate, disorientation, anxiety, and sometimes hallucinations. Causes can include dehydration, drug intoxication, and severe infection.
Better to decay in absolute delirium, than to be the victim of the methodical unreason of ill-bestowed love.
The popular delirium [of the French Revolution] at first caught his enthusiastic mind.