as in mind
the normal or healthy condition of the mental abilities
these working conditions are threatening my sanity!
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Recent Examples of sanity
The game also has a new-to-the-series sanity meter, which drains when Hinako uses focus attacks that slow down combat to give Hinako an edge.
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Zackery Cuevas, PC Magazine, 23 Sep. 2025
Since his earliest days making films, Francis Ford Coppola has been willing to risk it all — his reputation, perhaps even his sanity and certainly his finances — to make a project come to life.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 23 Sep. 2025
True, this would turn programs into inscrutable black boxes, but they could still be divided into modular testable units for sanity and quality checks.
—Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 23 Sep. 2025
Among the saddest scenes in literature is when the knight, on his deathbed, passes into sanity, with his faithful squire trying to still convince him of the fantastical nature of a reality that is anything but.
—Ed Simon
september 22, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
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Zackery Cuevas, PC Magazine, 23 Sep. 2025
Since his earliest days making films, Francis Ford Coppola has been willing to risk it all — his reputation, perhaps even his sanity and certainly his finances — to make a project come to life.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 23 Sep. 2025
True, this would turn programs into inscrutable black boxes, but they could still be divided into modular testable units for sanity and quality checks.
—Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 23 Sep. 2025
Among the saddest scenes in literature is when the knight, on his deathbed, passes into sanity, with his faithful squire trying to still convince him of the fantastical nature of a reality that is anything but.
—Ed Simon
september 22, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sanity
mind
Noun
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And while your mind may immediately go to the always sunny beaches in Florida or the upscale vibe of Hilton Head Island, the often overlooked sleepier towns are well worth a visit.—
Jennifer Prince,
Southern Living,
12 Oct. 2025
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Not on his wife’s behalf but, rather, for the fact that he’d been given this luxury, had spent his life tending to his mind in the space that his wife had cleared for him.—
Ayşegül Savaş,
New Yorker,
12 Oct. 2025
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“Sanity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sanity. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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