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• n  a sudden uncontrollable attack
  a paroxysm of giggling

• In one flashing paroxysm, he catches the ball in his gloved left hand, tucks it under his right stump, shakes the glove off, grabs the ball and throws.
• He was seized with a paroxysm of choking.
• Cause of Germany's paroxysm was found to be a proposal by Mayor LaGuardia that adjoining a proposed "temple of tolerance" at New York's 1939 World's Fair there be erected "a .

• fit
• convulsion

News & Articles

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• Star NBA Prospect Andrew Wiggins Can Jump Really High
  Above is a video of Andrew Wiggins at the 2012 LeBron James Skills Academy. As you can see, this dude can jump pretty freaking high. If you're wondering just how high he can jump, you're going to have to continue wondering. The vertical leap measurement apparatus just can't measure his peak, as noted by Scott Leedy of Hardwood Paroxysm. "when staff attempted to quantify Andrew Wiggins’s vertical ...
  July 9, 2013 - Bleacher Report

Quotes

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• Isadora Duncan in New York Times
  In her autobiography, "My Life," Duncan described the heady conclusion to this dance as falling into "a paroxysm of joyous abandon."
• Don DeLillo in Washington Post
  What comes next, DeLillo said, might be a "paroxysm or something enormously sublime," but in this small novel it seems closer to stony silence.