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Manic vs Mantic - What's the difference?

manic | mantic |

As adjectives the difference between manic and mantic

is that manic is suffering from mania; the state of abnormally elevated or irritable mood, arousal, and/or energy levels while mantic is relating to divination; prophetic.

manic

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (psychiatry) Suffering from mania; the state of abnormally elevated or irritable mood, arousal, and/or energy levels.
  • Of or pertaining to someone who exhibits mania or craziness; wicked.

    • mantic

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Relating to divination; prophetic.
  • * 1921 , Sir William Osler, The Evolution of Modern Medicine :
    • [H]e casts his horoscope secundum artem, then, taking a branch of tamarisk, a favorite tree from which to get the divining rod, he names some twenty-nine or thirty mantic arts, from pyromancy to necromancy, by which he offers to predict his future.

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