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madness
noun
1 madness
Obsolete terms for legal insanity.
synonyms: insaneness, lunacy.
Roget 503:
disordered reason,
disordered intellect;
diseased mind,
unsound mind,
abnormal mind;
derangement,
unsoundness;
psychosis;
neurosis;
cognitive disorder;
affective disorder†.
insanity,
lunacy;
madness
etc.
adj.;
mania,
rabies,
furor,
mental alienation,
aberration;
paranoia,
schizophrenia;
dementation†,
dementia,
demency†;
phrenitis†,
phrensy†,
frenzy,
raving,
incoherence,
wandering,
delirium,
calenture of the brain†;
delusion,
hallucination;
lycanthropy†;
brain storm†.
vertigo,
dizziness,
swimming;
sunstroke,
coup de soleil [Fr.],
siriasis†.
fanaticism,
infatuation,
craze;
oddity,
eccentricity,
twist,
monomania
(caprice)
608;
kleptodipsomania†;
hypochondriasis [Med.]
etc.
(low spirits)
837;
melancholia,
depression,
clinical depression,
severe depression;
hysteria;
amentia†.
screw loose,
tile loose,
slate loose;
bee in one's bonnet,
rats in the upper story.
dotage
etc.
(imbecility)
499.
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Dutch: gekheid, maanziekte
2 madness
An acute viral disease of the nervous system of warm-blooded animals (usually transmitted by the bite of a rabid animal); rabies is fatal if the virus reaches the brain.
synonyms: hydrophobia, lyssa, rabies.
Dutch: watervrees, hondsdolheid, rabies, rabiës, razernij
Polish: hydrofobia, wodowstręt, wścieklizna
3 madness
A feeling of intense anger.
synonyms: fury, rage.
Roget 825:
excitability,
impetuosity,
vehemence;
boisterousness
etc.
adj.;
turbulence;
impatience,
intolerance,
nonendurance†;
irritability
etc.
(irascibility)
901;
itching
etc.
(desire)
865;
wincing;
disquiet,
disquietude;
restlessness;
fidgets,
fidgetiness;
agitation
etc.
(irregular motion)
315.
trepidation,
perturbation,
ruffle,
hurry,
fuss,
flurry;
fluster,
flutter;
pother,
stew,
ferment;
whirl;
buck fever;
hurry-skurry†,
thrill
etc.
(feeling)
821;
state of excitement,
fever of excitement;
transport.
passion,
excitement,
flush,
heat;
fever,
heat;
fire,
flame,
fume,
blood boiling;
tumult;
effervescence,
ebullition;
boiling over;
whiff,
gust,
story,
tempest;
scene,
breaking out,
burst,
fit,
paroxysm,
explosion;
outbreak,
outburst;
agony.
violence
etc.
173;
fierceness
etc.
adj.;
rage,
fury,
furor,
furore†,
desperation,
madness,
distraction,
raving,
delirium;
phrensy†,
frenzy,
hysterics;
intoxication;
tearing passion,
raging passion;
anger
etc.
900.
fascination,
infatuation,
fanaticism;
Quixotism,
Quixotry;
tete montee [Fr.].
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Dutch: razernij
Polish: furia, wściekłość, pasja
4 madness
5 madness
Unrestrained excitement or enthusiasm:
— Poetry is a sort of divine madness.
synonyms: rabidity, rabidness.
Polish: szaleńczość
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