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madness
Synonyms and Antonyms of madness
- nowadays certain forms of madness are quite treatable
aberration, dementia, derangement, insanity, lunacy, mania, rage [archaic]
- to do something so reckless would be sheer madness
denseness, dim-wittedness, doltishness, dopiness, dullness (also dulness), dumbness, feeblemindedness, gormlessness [chiefly British], idiocy, mindlessness, oafishness, obtuseness, simplemindedness, simpleness, slowness, stupidity, stupidness, vacuity
- her incessant insults goaded him to such madness that he would storm around breaking dishes and slamming doors
aggravation, annoyance, exasperation, irritation, vexation
acrimoniousness, acrimony, animosity, antagonism, antipathy, bile, biliousness, bitterness, contempt, embitterment, empoisonment, enmity, grudge, hostility, rancor
envy, jaundice, jealousy, pique, resentment
malevolence, malice, spite, vengefulness, venom, vindictiveness, virulence, vitriol
belligerence, contentiousness, contrariness, crankiness, disputatiousness, hot-headedness, irascibility, irascibleness, irritability, orneriness, pugnaciousness, pugnacity, quarrelsomeness, querulousness
blowup, flare, flare-up, outburst
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