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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | insanity |
| Synonyms: | aberration, absurdity, alienation, brainsickness, craziness, delirium, delusion, dementia, derangement, distraction, disturbance, dotage, folly, frenzy, hallucination, hysteria, illusion, inanity, insaneness, irrationality, irresponsibility, lunacy, madness, mania, mental disorder, mental illness, neurosis, phobia, preposterousness, psychosis, senselessness, unbalance, unreasonableness, witlessness |
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| Main Entry: | lunacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | craziness, madness |
| Synonyms: | aberration, absurdity, alienation, asininity, dementia, derangement, distraction, fatuity, folly, foolhardiness, foolishness, idiocy, imbalance, imbecility, inanity, ineptitude, insanity, mania, psychopathy, psychosis, senselessness, silliness, stupidity |
| Antonyms: | saneness |
| Main Entry: | madness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | insanity |
| Synonyms: | aberration, absurdity, craziness, delirium, delusion, dementia, derangement, fanaticism, foolishness, hysteria, irrationality, lunacy, madness, mania, mental disorder, mental illness, neurosis, phobia, psychopathy, psychosis, stupidity, unbalance |
| Main Entry: | mental illness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | emotional disorder |
| Synonyms: | craziness, delusions, depression, derangement, disturbed mind, emotional disorder, emotional instability, insanity, loss of mind, lunacy, madness, maladjustment, mania, mental disease, mental disorder, mental sickness, nervous breakdown, nervous disorder, neurosis, neurotic disorder, paranoia, personality disorder, phobia, psychopathy, psychosis, schizophrenia, sick mind, troubled mind, unbalanced mind, unsoundness of mind |
| Main Entry: | neurosis |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental disturbance, disorder |
| Synonyms: | aberration, abnormality, affliction, breakdown, compulsion, crack-up, derangement, deviation, hysteria, inhibition, insanity, instability, madness, maladjustment, mental illness, neurasthenia, obsession, personality disorder, phobia, psychological disorder, psychopathy |
| Notes: | neurosis is a disorder of the central nervous system and it has come to be used as a shortened form of psychoneurosis, a mildly disturbing emotional or physical condition brought on by a mental state, while psychosis is a severe emotional disturbance |
| Antonyms: | adjustment, balance, sanity |
| Main Entry: | brainsickness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | insanity |
| Synonyms: | craziness, derangement, insaneness, lunacy, madness, mental disorder, mental illness, psychopathy, psychosis, unsoundness |
| Main Entry: | craziness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | insanity |
| Synonyms: | brainsickness, derangement, insaneness, lunacy, madness, mental disorder, mental illness, psychopathy, psychosis, unsoundness |
| Main Entry: | insaneness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | insanity |
| Synonyms: | aberration, absurdity, alienation, brainsickness, craziness, delirium, delusion, dementia, derangement, distraction, disturbance, dotage, folly, frenzy, hallucination, hysteria, illusion, inanity, irrationality, irresponsibility, lunacy, madness, mania, mental disorder, mental illness, neurosis, phobia, preposterousness, psychopathy, psychosis, senselessness, unbalance, unreasonableness, witlessness |
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| Main Entry: | lunacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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amok, ape, apeshit, arreptitious, balmy, bananas, barmy, batty, bent, bereft of reason, berserk, beside oneself, bewildered, bonkers, cachetic, committed, corybantic, crack, crazed, crazy, cuckoo, daffy, daft, delirious, demented, demoniac, deranged, distracted, distraught, dithyrambic, doting, eccentric, fanatical, far, flighty, frantic, frenetic, frenzied, giddy, gone, goofy, haggard, haywire, homicidal, hypped, hyppish, hyte, imbecile, incoherent, infatuated, insane, insensate, kooky, light, lunatic, mad, mad, mad as a March hare, mad as a hatter, maniacal, mazed, mental, moonstruck, moronic, not in one's right mind, not right, not right in one's head, not right in one's mind, not right in one's upper story, not right in one's wits, nuts, nutty, odd, of unsound mind, off, out of one's mind, out of one's senses, out of one's wits, overdrawn, phrenetic, phrensied, possessed, possessed with a devil, potty, psycho, psychopathic, rabid, rambling, raving, reasonless, scatterbrained, schizoid, schizy, screwy, shatter, sick, silly, stark staring mad, touched, touched in one's head, touched in one's mind, touched in one's upper story, touched in one's wits, twisted, unbalanced, unglued, unhinged, unsane, unsettled in one's mind, vecordious, vertiginous, wacko, wacky, wandering, whacked, wild, wowf, wrong in one's head, wrong in one's mind, wrong in one's upper story, wrong in one's wits, zany
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