MADNESS
madness, rabidity, rabidness
(noun) unrestrained excitement or enthusiasm; “poetry is a sort of divine madness”
folly, foolishness, craziness, madness
(noun) the quality of being rash and foolish; “trying to drive through a blizzard is the height of folly”; “adjusting to an insane society is total foolishness”
fury, rage, madness
(noun) a feeling of intense anger; “hell hath no fury like a woman scorned”; “his face turned red with rage”
rabies, hydrophobia, lyssa, madness
(noun) 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
lunacy, madness, insaneness
(noun) obsolete terms for legal insanity
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
madness (countable and uncountable, plural madnesses)
The state of being mad; insanity; mental disease.
rash folly
Synonyms
• See also insanity
Antonyms
• sanity
Anagrams
• Amsdens, desmans
Source: Wiktionary
Mad"ness, n. Etym: [From Mad, a.]
1. The condition of being mad; insanity; lunacy.
2. Frenzy; ungovernable rage; extreme folly.
Syn.
– Insanity; distraction; derangement; craziness; lunacy; mania;
frenzy; franticness; rage; aberration; alienation; monomania. See
Insanity.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition