| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental illness; foolishness |
| Synonyms: | aberration, absurdity, alienation, craziness, delirium, delusion, dementia, derangement, distraction, dotage, folly, frenzy, hallucination, hysteria, illusion, inanity, irrationality, irresponsibility, lunacy, madness, mania, mental disorder, neurosis, phobia, preposterousness, psychopathy, psychosis, senselessness, unbalance, unreasonableness, witlessness |
| Antonyms: | balance, sanity, soundness, wellness |
| 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: | 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 |
| Main Entry: | psychopathy |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | lunacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
Related
Adjectives: |
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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| Concept: | Insanity. |
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-nouns
disordered reason, disordered intellect; diseased mind, unsound mind, abnormal mind; derangement, unsoundness., insanity, lunacy; madness; mania, rabies, furor, mental alienation, aberration; paranoia; dementation, dementia, demency; phrenitis, phrensy, frenzy, raving, incoherence, wandering, delirium, calenture of the brain; delusion, hallucination; lycanthropy; brainstorm., vertigo, dizziness, swimming; sunstroke, coup de soleil, siriasis., fanaticism, infatuation, craze; oddity, eccentricity, twist, monomania; kleptodipsomania; hypochondriassis (low spirits); melancholia, hysteria; amentia., screw loose, tile loose, slate loose; bee in one's bonnet, rats in the upper story., dotage (imbecility).
-verbs
be insane, become insane; lose one's senses, lose one's reason, lose one's faculties, lose one's wits; go mad, run mad; rave, dote, ramble, wander; drivel (be imbecile); have a screw loose, have a devil; avoir le diable au corps; lose one's head (be uncertain) [more]., render mad, drive mad; madden, dementate, addle the wits, derange the head, infatuate, befool; turn the brain, turn one's head.
-adjectives
insane, mad, lunatic; crazy, crazed, aliene, non compos mentis; not right, cracked, touched; bereft of reason; all possessed, unhinged, unsettled in one's mind; insensate, reasonless, beside oneself, demented, daft; phrenzied, frenzied, frenetic; possessed, possessed with a devil; deranged, maddened, moonstruck; shatterpated; mad-brained, scatterbrained, shatterbrained, crackbrained; off one's head., maniacal; delirious, lightheaded, incoherent, rambling, doting, wandering; frantic, raving, stark staring mad., corybantic, dithyrambic; rabid, giddy, vertiginous, wild; haggard, mazed; flighty; distracted, distraught; bewildered (uncertain).
-adverbs
like one possessed.
-phrases
the mind having lost its balance; the reason under a cloud; tete exaltee, tete montee; ira furor brevis est; omnes stultos insanire [Horace].
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| Antonyms: | sanity |
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