madness

Meanings

Plural: madnesses

Noun

• obsolete terms for legal insanity
• 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
• a feeling of intense anger
• the quality of being rash and foolish
• unrestrained excitement or enthusiasm
  • "poetry is a sort of divine madness"
• The state of being mad; insanity; mental disease.
• The state of being angry.
• Rash folly.

Synonyms

bedlamism, brainsickness, craze, craziness, derangement, folly, foolishness, fury, hydrophobia, insaneness, insanity, lunacy, lune, lyssa, madness, mental disorder, mental illness, rabidity, rabidness, rabies, rage, unreason, unsanity

Antonyms

sanity