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1
a foolish act or idea
- you want to sneak into the building after the alarm is set—what lunacy!
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2
a serious mental disorder that prevents one from living a safe and normal life
- the judge ruled that the lunacy of the accused made him incompetent to stand trial
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- aberration,
- dementia,
- derangement,
- insanity,
- madness,
- mania,
- rage
- [archaic]
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3
lack of good sense or judgment
- was it desperation or lunacy that caused him to quit his job and move to California without any plan for what to do when he got there?
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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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“Lunacy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lunacy. Accessed 25 Oct. 2021.
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The first known use of lunacy was in 1541
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