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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Word of the Day

30 June 2025

BODILY

(adjective) affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit; “bodily needs”; “a corporal defect”; “corporeal suffering”; “a somatic symptom or somatic illness”


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