Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
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
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