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1
a serious mental disorder that prevents one from living a safe and normal life
- nowadays certain forms of madness are quite treatable
Synonyms for madness
- aberration,
- dementia,
- derangement,
- insanity,
- lunacy,
- mania,
- rage
- [archaic]
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2
lack of good sense or judgment
- to do something so reckless would be sheer madness
Synonyms for madness
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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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3
an intense emotional state of displeasure with someone or something
- her incessant insults goaded him to such madness that he would storm around breaking dishes and slamming doors
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- acrimoniousness,
- acrimony,
- animosity,
- antagonism,
- antipathy,
- bile,
- biliousness,
- bitterness,
- contempt,
- embitterment,
- empoisonment,
- enmity,
- grudge,
- hostility,
- rancor
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The first known use of madness was in the 14th century
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