psychosis

Main Entry:
insanity [in-san-i-tee]
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
Related Words
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
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Insanity.
Synonyms:
-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].
Antonyms: sanity
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