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insanity

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of insanity

1 a serious mental disorder that prevents one from living a safe and normal life
  • a tormented artistic genius on the brink of insanity
Synonyms of insanity

aberration, derangement, lunacy, madness, mania
Words Related to insanity

neurosis, psychosis

instability, irrationality, unreasonableness

delirium, frenzy, hysteria

paranoia

delusion, hallucination

monomania, obsession, phobia

abnormality, dementedness, unsoundness
Near Antonyms of insanity

lucidity, rationality, rationalness, reasonability, reasonableness

normality, soundness
Antonyms of insanity

mind, saneness, sanity
2 a foolish act or idea
  • His friends thought that his decision to quit his job was pure insanity.
Synonyms of insanity

absurdity, asininity, fatuity, folly, foolery, foppery, idiocy, imbecility, inanity, lunacy, stupidity
Words Related to insanity

absurdness, craziness, foolishness, inaneness, madness, senselessness, witlessness

buffoonery, monkeyshine(s), shenanigan(s), tomfoolery

drivel, humbug, nonsense, twaddle

blunder, bungle, flub, goof, howler
Near Antonyms of insanity

discretion, forethought, prudence, sagacity, wisdom

brainstorm, inspiration
3 lack of good sense or judgment
  • They had the insanity to think that buying lottery tickets would make them rich.
Synonyms of insanity

absurdity, asininity, balminess, brainlessness, craziness, daftness, dippiness, dottiness, fatuity, fatuousness, folly, foolishness, imbecility, inanity, lunacy, madness, nonsensicalness, nuttiness, preposterousness, senselessness, silliness, simplicity, wackiness, witlessness, zaniness
Words Related to insanity

denseness, dim-wittedness, doltishness, dopiness, dullness (also dulness), dumbness, feeblemindedness, idiocy, mindlessness, oafishness, obtuseness, simplemindedness, simpleness, slowness, stupidity, stupidness, vacuity

fallacy, irrationality, unreasonableness

kookiness, weirdness

laughableness, ludicrousness, ridiculousness
Near Antonyms of insanity

logicality, logicalness, rationality, rationalness, reasonability, reasonableness, validity

discernment, insight, perception, percipience
Antonyms of insanity

prudence, sagaciousness, sagacity, sageness, sanity, sapience, sensibleness, soundness, wisdom

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