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Synonyms & Antonyms of insanity
- his incurable insanity requires that he spend the rest of his life in a mental hospital
Synonyms for insanity
- aberration,
- dementia,
- derangement,
- lunacy,
- madness,
- mania,
- rage
- [archaic]
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- everyone laughed at the latest insanity from the town eccentric
Synonyms for insanity
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- had the insanity to think that taking over a government building in protest of our foreign policy was a good idea
Synonyms for insanity
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- denseness,
- dim-wittedness,
- doltishness,
- dopiness,
- dullness
- (also dulness),
- dumbness,
- feeblemindedness,
- gormlessness
- [chiefly British],
- idiocy,
- mindlessness,
- oafishness,
- obtuseness,
- simplemindedness,
- simpleness,
- slowness,
- stupidity,
- stupidness,
- vacuity
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“Insanity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/insanity. Accessed 16 May. 2022.
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