What's the difference between frenzy and hectic?

Frenzy


Definition:

  • (n.) Any violent agitation of the mind approaching to distraction; violent and temporary derangement of the mental faculties; madness; rage.
  • (a.) Mad; frantic.
  • (v. t.) To affect with frenzy; to drive to madness

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This year's IPO frenzy has shown further signs of fading, as yet another company ditched plans to list its shares on the London stock exchange.
  • (2) He seemed to have his finger on an invisible button, hardwired into the brains of the Fleet Street editors, driving them into an apoplectic frenzy of rage each time he chose to push it.
  • (3) Updated at 2.49am BST 2.19am BST Before Rudd got into his press conference, there was a selfie frenzy on the oval at St Mary's.
  • (4) The fracking frenzy seems to be coming to an early end both sides of the Atlantic.
  • (5) In that frenzy of notes, I saw myself running from soldiers through the alleys of Al Amari.
  • (6) Morsi's opponents plan to organise massive protests on 30 June, the first anniversary of his election – a day that is the subject of frenzied speculation on both the Egyptian streets and in its media.
  • (7) Its use of Twitter and the hashtag #sherlocklives was rather more de rigeur, ensuring that the show was trending on Twitter as fans were sent into a frenzy by its imminent return.
  • (8) His team had been working on a protest-themed game for the past two years, and the frenzy surrounding Occupy Central gave them an excuse to release a prototype.
  • (9) A campaign involving children in Syrian villages has latched on to the Pokémon Go craze, asking gamers in the west to take a break from their frenzied hunt for digital creatures to turn their attention to young people trapped in war zones.
  • (10) In a lifetime in public life, I've never seen the same sort of storm of background briefing, personal sniping and media frenzy getting in the way of decent people doing a valiant job trying to cope with unprecedented natural forces.
  • (11) In the latest CIA coup, America's leading spooks have sent the Twittersphere into a frenzy with their chucklesome debut on social media: "We can neither confirm nor deny that this is our first tweet."
  • (12) Let the games begin A week of awards-season frenzy begins on Sunday night in Hollywood with the Golden Globes .
  • (13) Picture Detroit today and the images that probably come to mind are of " ruin porn " (the now infamous term for beautifully shot photos of dilapidated buildings); urban exploring (the new craze of creeping around abandoned complexes as seen in Jim Jarmusch's new film Only Lovers Left Alive ) and foreclosure frenzy (there are now nearly 80,000 empty homes to be torn down or fixed up in Motor City).
  • (14) It was a taste of off-grid hippy monasticism inspired by his time at Taliesin West, where each student had to build their own shelter in the desert (a tradition that continues there today), and an embodiment of his underlying motive to “frugalise the frenzied consumerist juggernaut”.
  • (15) Obama's first visit to South Africa as president is going ahead as planned despite the frenzy of anxiety and attention around Mandela's condition.
  • (16) Relations with the former secretary of state soured over budget issues and the Ofsted chief’s reluctance to share the ideological frenzy in Mr Gove’s entourage that treated the emancipation of schools from local authority control as an end in itself.
  • (17) He followed ordinary protesters, including a teacher and a high school student, and captured frenzied clashes between police and demonstrators.
  • (18) As home secretary, Mrs May has responsibility for subjects that, in the past, have worked Tory conferences into a frenzy: crime, policing, immigration and drugs among them.
  • (19) An accountable, democratic government would have no doubt achieved a less frenzied, more sustainable economic rise, with less corruption and environmental devastation.
  • (20) Estate agents and homebuyers have reported frenzied demand for property in the capital, with homes attracting huge numbers of would-be buyers.

Hectic


Definition:

  • (a.) Habitual; constitutional; pertaining especially to slow waste of animal tissue, as in consumption; as, a hectic type in disease; a hectic flush.
  • (a.) In a hectic condition; having hectic fever; consumptive; as, a hectic patient.
  • (n.) Hectic fever.
  • (n.) A hectic flush.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This week of hectic activity is the outcome of a determined global programme designed to raise the self-confidence, morale and influence of the social work profession around the world in a decade-long strategy lead by the International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW), International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW) and International Council on Social Welfare (ICSW).
  • (2) Pain and loss of motion in the affected joint were prominent, but toxic features of pyogenic infections--hectic fever, chills, sweats, local warmth, or erythema--were conspicuously absent.
  • (3) A previously healthy 14-year-old girl showed monosymptomatic hectic fever for over 3 weeks with negative clinical findings.
  • (4) While the opening tranche of "tales" derive from the work of forgotten contemporary humorists, the pieces of London reportage that he began to contribute to the Morning Chronicle in autumn 1834 ("Gin Shops", "Shabby-Genteel People", "The Pawnbroker's Shop") are like nothing else in pre-Victorian journalism: bantering and hard-headed by turns, hectic and profuse, falling over themselves to convey every last detail of the metropolitan front-line from which Dickens sent back his dispatches.
  • (5) The hectic pace of office practice can make full assessment of the patient difficult and state-of-the-art management a formidable goal.
  • (6) I grab a few laps but it’s still a bit hectic so I decide to give up and come back when it’s quieter.
  • (7) At the end of what has been a hectic summer at St Mary’s Ronald Koeman’s side managed to make two impressive additions as several players left on loan.
  • (8) It’s been an exciting and hectic period and to have had to choose between so many top clubs doesn’t make it any easier.
  • (9) Few, if any, will be arriving on anything as common as a bus, with private jets and helicopters pressed into service as many of the world's most powerful people convene to discuss the state of the global economy over four hectic days of meetings, seminars and parties in the exclusive ski resort .
  • (10) Between fielding calls in another hectic day at the Connaught, Johnson says a change in mentality is needed to bridge the chasm between grand plans hatched in Washington, New York and London and the urgent needs on the ground.
  • (11) One biographer has noted how "the reports of his sexual liaisons – both factual and fictitious – leaked from the private realm to fuel the hectic debate over his qualities as a public man".
  • (12) In 1989, following a hectic effort to reduce its size and weight, the $160m satellite was launched into orbit on a small rocket from Californian airbase.
  • (13) It has been a hectic and stressful week as a result of bureaucratic hurdles and a forecast of rain, which thankfully proved wrong.
  • (14) A large number of operations are carried out under pressure of time and under hectic conditions, as well as in a confined space in operation theatres which are too warm; these factors increase the susceptibility to infection.
  • (15) You’ve seen Usain Bolt.” He describes football as his release, a place where he could spend time with his friends and be himself, because he lived in such a hectic household.
  • (16) Philip Shaw, economist, Investec It has been a hectic week for economic data as well as pre‑General Election political developments.
  • (17) Of course it was a very emotional and hectic game,” said Hiddink.
  • (18) At night the towers turn red, hectic, throbbing with a demonic glow that takes my breath away.
  • (19) There’s a strong sense of injustice.” Leading his members across the UK appears to require a hectic travel schedule – he’s not long back from Llandudno and he’ll soon be in Aberdeen (job cuts are looming in the oil industry).
  • (20) Far from the hectic campaign trail, Romney's relatives back in Wales dismiss suggestions that she is anything but genuine in her enthusiasm.