" hypomania "

[Noun]  | "hy*po*ma*nia" | \ ˌhī-pə-ˈmā-nē-ə \

1: a mild mania especially when part of bipolar disorder

Origin: 1882 ;

 Borrowed from German Hypomanie, from hypo- {see: |hypo-|hypo-} + -manie {see: |-mania|-mania};

  * Note : Hypomanie was introduced by the German neurologist and psychologist Emanuel Mendel (1839-1907) in Die Manie: eine Monographie (Vienna/Leipzig, 1881), p. 38: "Unter diesen Umständen schlage ich, mit Rücksicht auf das schon von Hippokrates gebrauchte [Greek letters] 'hypomainomenai', vor, die Formen von Manie, die das typische Krankheitsbild derselben nur in geringer Entwicklung, gewissermassen abortiv, zeigen, als Hypomanie zu bezeichnen." ("Under these circumstances I suggest, taking into consideration [the expression] hypomainomenai already employed by Hippocrates, that the forms of mania in which typical features are only slightly developed, to a certain degree stillborn, be called hypomania.") Hippocrates' hypomainómenai is the plural participle of a verb hypomaínomai, hypomaínesthai, taken to mean "to be somewhat mad.";

[Noun]  | "hypomania"