Synonyms and Antonyms of lunacy
1
a foolish act or idea - Quitting her job was lunacy.
absurdity, asininity, fatuity, folly, foolery, foppery, idiocy, imbecility, inanity, insanity, stupidity
absurdness, craziness, foolishness, inaneness, madness, senselessness, witlessness
buffoonery, monkeyshine(s), shenanigan(s), tomfoolery
drivel, humbug, nonsense, twaddle
blunder, bungle, flub, goof, howler
2
a serious mental disorder that prevents one from living a safe and normal life - In Hamlet, the king asks if anyone knows the cause of Hamlet's lunacy.
neurosis, psychosis
instability, irrationality, unreasonableness
delirium, frenzy, hysteria
paranoia
delusion, hallucination
monomania, obsession, phobia
abnormality, dementedness, unsoundness
3
lack of good sense or judgment - It only shows lunacy to drive in this storm.
absurdity, asininity, balminess, brainlessness, craziness, daftness, dippiness, dottiness, fatuity, fatuousness, folly, foolishness, imbecility, inanity, insanity, madness, nonsensicalness, nuttiness, preposterousness, senselessness, silliness, simplicity, wackiness, witlessness, zaniness
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
