"mood swing" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: mood swings [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} mood swing (plural mood swings)
  1. (psychology) A rapid and extreme changing in mood, from excessively happy to desperately miserable. Categories (topical): Emotions, Psychology Translations (rapid and extreme changing in mood): 情緒波動 (Chinese Mandarin), 情绪波动 (qíngxù bōdòng) (Chinese Mandarin), stemmingswisseling [feminine] (Dutch), stemmingsschommeling [feminine] (Dutch), mielialan muutos (Finnish), mielialan vaihtelu (Finnish), saute d’humeur [feminine] (French), Stimmungsschwankung [feminine] (German), Stimmungsumschwung [masculine] (German), huśtawka nastrojów [colloquial, feminine] (Polish), wahania nastroju [plural] (Polish), nagłe zmiany nastroju [plural] (Polish), перепа́ды настрое́ния (perepády nastrojénija) [masculine, plural] (Russian), cambio de humor [masculine] (Spanish)

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