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insanity

One entry found.


Entry Word:
insanity
Function:
noun
Text: 1 a serious mental disorder that prevents one from living a safe and normal life<his insanity requires that he spend the rest of his life in a mental hospital>Synonymsaberration, dementia, derangement, lunacy, madness, maniaRelated Wordsirrationality, unreasonableness; delirium, frenzy, hysteria; neurosis, psychosis, schizophrenia; delusion, hallucination, obsession, phobia; abnormality, unsoundnessNear Antonymslucidity, rationality, reasonableness; normality, soundnessAntonymsmind, saneness, sanity 2 a foolish act or idea<everyone laughed at the latest insanity from the town eccentric>— see folly 1 3 lack of good sense or judgment<had the insanity to think that taking over a government building in protest of our foreign policy was a good idea>— see foolishness 1
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