Path. [mod. (irreg.) f. Gr. λύπη grief + μανία MANIA. Cf. F. lypémanie.] A form of insanity characterized by extreme mournfulness.
1852. Standard, 12 Nov., 3/6. On the maternal side, one uncle became insane at an advanced age, exhibited symptoms of lypemania, and died of senile dementia.
[1856. in Mayne, Expos. Lex. as a Lat. word.]
1874. Maudsley, Respons. in Ment. Dis., iii. 72. The chronic form of the disease … which Esquirol proposed to distinguish as lypemania.
1896. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., I. 828. In some cases, especially in women, the delirium [of typhoid fever] has more the character of lipemania.
