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  1. madness

    Of these terms insanity is the most exact and comprehensive, including in its widest sense all morbid conditions of mind due to diseased action of the brain or nervous system, but in its more frequent restricted use applied to those forms in which the mental disorder is persistent, as distinguished from those in which it is temporary or transient. Craziness is a vague popular term for any sort of disordered mental action, or for conduct suggesting it. Lunacy originally denoted intermittent insanity, supposed to be dependent on the changes of the moon (Latin luna): the term is now applied in general and legal use to any form of mental unsoundness except idiocy. Madness is the old popular term, now less common, for insanity in its widest sense, but with suggestion of excitement, akin to mania. In the derived sense, lunacy denotes what is insanely foolish, madness what is insanely desperate. Derangement is a common euphemism for insanity. Delirium is always temporary, and is specifically the insanity of disease, as in acute fevers. Dementia is a general weakening of the mental powers: the word is specifically applied to senile insanity, dotage. Aberration is eccentricity of mental action due to an abnormal state of the perceptive faculties, and is manifested by error in perceptions and rambling thought. Hallucination is the apparent perception of that which does not exist or is not present to the senses, as the seeing of specters or of reptiles in delirium tremens. Monomania is mental derangement as to one subject or object. Frenzy and mania are forms of raving and furious insanity. Compare synonyms for DELUSION; IDIOCY.

    Synonyms:
    aberration, alienation, craziness, delirium, dementia, derangement, frenzy, hallucination, insanity, lunacy, mania, monomania

    Antonyms:
    clearness, good sense, lucidity, rationality, sanity

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  1. lunacy, madness, insanenessnoun

    obsolete terms for legal insanity

    Synonyms:
    lyssa, fury, rage, rabidity, hydrophobia, foolery, madness, tomfoolery, rabidness, indulgence, insaneness, foolishness, lunacy, folly, craziness, rabies

  2. rabies, hydrophobia, lyssa, madnessnoun

    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

    Synonyms:
    lyssa, insaneness, fury, rage, rabidity, hydrophobia, madness, rabidness, rabies, foolishness, lunacy, folly, craziness

  3. fury, rage, madnessnoun

    a feeling of intense anger

    «hell hath no fury like a woman scorned»; «his face turned red with rage»

    Synonyms:
    fad, hydrophobia, foolishness, furiousness, hysteria, craze, vehemence, insaneness, cult, rabidness, madness, ferocity, violence, delirium, passion, fierceness, furore, rabies, fury, frenzy, rage, lyssa, folly, craziness, lunacy, wildness, rabidity, furor

  4. folly, foolishness, craziness, madnessnoun

    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»

    Synonyms:
    lunacy, foolishness, flakiness, fury, daftness, madness, rabidity, imbecility, stupidity, hydrophobia, rabidness, foolery, tomfoolery, lyssa, folly, craziness, insaneness, indulgence, rage, rabies, unwiseness, betise

  5. madness, rabidity, rabidnessnoun

    unrestrained excitement or enthusiasm

    «poetry is a sort of divine madness»

    Synonyms:
    lyssa, fury, rage, rabidity, hydrophobia, madness, rabidness, insaneness, foolishness, lunacy, rabies, craziness, folly

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    • Insanity
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  1. madnessnoun

    Synonyms:
    dementia, insanity, craziness, mania, lunacy, monomania, frenzy, rage, wrath, ire, resentment, fury, indignation, anger

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  1. List of paraphrases for «madness»:

    folly, insanity, lunacy, crazy, craziness, insane, cow, foolishness, zee, dementia, frenzy, foolish

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  1. Don Byas:

    You call it madness, but I call it love.

  2. Friedrich Nietzsche:

    There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

  3. Ahmed Korayem:

    The secret of life isn’t an attempt to explain everything but, rather, to understand that certain things can’t be explained. Demanding that everything is to be dissected neath a microscope is madness. Hence the attempt to explain everything is madness.

  4. Sextus Propertius:

    Afflicted by love’s madness all are blind.

  5. Mark Miles:

    We feel a real responsibility to protect that legacy and to grow it and to have the race, we’re ready to take the next step in bringing back the economy and a lot of that in this city and state is driven by sports events which has been shut down for so many months. March Madness was incredibly successful, this is the next step and it just so happens this will probably be the biggest sporting event of the year.


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  • šílenstvíCzech
  • galskab, sindssyge, vanvidDanish
  • Verrücktheit, WahnsinnGerman
  • τρέλα, παραφροσύνηGreek
  • frenezecoEsperanto
  • locuraSpanish
  • جنونPersian
  • hulluusFinnish
  • la démence, folieFrench
  • loucura, toleríaGalician
  • meecheeallidManx
  • पागलपनHindi
  • őrültségHungarian
  • folliaItalian
  • 狂気Japanese
  • furoremLatin
  • ārprāts, trakums, vājprātsLatvian
  • കിറുക്ക്, ഭ്രാന്ത്, വട്ട്Malayalam
  • szaleństwo, obłędPolish
  • insanidade, loucuraPortuguese
  • nebunieRomanian
  • сумасшествие, помеша́тельство, безумиеRussian
  • ludost, ludilo, poremećenostSerbo-Croatian
  • vansinneSwedish
  • పిచ్చిTelugu

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Pronunciation:

[ mˈadnəs], [ mˈadnəs], [ m_ˈa_d_n_ə_s]

Related words: suffering, horror, madness, mental illness, mental disturbance, mental illness symptoms

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    • n.

      • bipolar disorder,
      • autism,
      • breakdown,
      • agoraphobia,
      • combat fatigue,
      • claustrophobia,
      • Asperger’s syndrome.

      • sane,
      • stunt,
      • a mug’s game,
      • disturbance.

      • ability.

      attribute (noun)

      • madness,
      • Rabidness.

      craziness (noun)

      • brainlessnesses,
      • nuttinesses,
      • zaninesses,
      • wackinesses,
      • flakinesses.

      dementia (noun)

      • Alzheimer Disease,
      • un balances,
      • softening of brain,
      • alzheimer’s diseases,
      • alzheimer diseases,
      • personality changes,
      • softening the brain,
      • un-balances,
      • un-balance,
      • mental deteriorations,
      • alzheimers diseases,
      • alzheimers disease,
      • mental decays,
      • un balance,
      • softening brain.

      desperation (noun)

      • de fiance,
      • de-fiance,
      • impetuosities,
      • de-fiances,
      • de fiances.

      euphoria (noun)

      • re laxation,
      • high spiritses,
      • joyousnesses,
      • re-laxation,
      • in toxication,
      • in toxications,
      • in-toxication,
      • re-laxations,
      • in-toxications,
      • re laxations.

      fanaticism (noun)

      • injustice,
      • illiberality,
      • immoderation,
      • illiberalities,
      • singlemindedness,
      • willfulness,
      • single-mindedness,
      • partiality,
      • monomania,
      • Incorrigibility,
      • violence,
      • arbitrariness,
      • in justice,
      • zealotry,
      • extremism,
      • obsessiveness,
      • dogma.

      folly (noun)

      • in advisability,
      • daftnesses,
      • in discretions,
      • un soundnesses,
      • in-discretion,
      • un-soundness,
      • un-soundnesses,
      • in-advisability,
      • in-discretions,
      • inadvisabilities,
      • dottinesses,
      • dumb thing do,
      • in discretion,
      • in advisabilities,
      • in-advisabilities,
      • un soundness,
      • dumb tricks,
      • witlessnesses.

      foolishness (noun)

      • imbecility.

      frenzy (noun)

      • blow stacks,
      • dis tempers,
      • blow one stacks,
      • blow ones stacks,
      • blow corks,
      • dis temper,
      • out bursts,
      • blow one cork,
      • flip one lids,
      • flip ones lid,
      • blow cork,
      • blow one stack,
      • flip lids,
      • flip one’s lids,
      • blow fuse,
      • dis-tractions,
      • blow tops,
      • blow a fuses,
      • blow one’s corks,
      • dis-temper,
      • blow ones tops,
      • blow ones cork,
      • free for all,
      • out burst,
      • blow ones stack,
      • out-burst,
      • blow one’s tops,
      • dis-traction,
      • dis tractions,
      • flip lid,
      • flip one lid,
      • blow stack,
      • dis-tempers,
      • dis traction,
      • hell broke looses,
      • blow one corks,
      • blow ones corks,
      • out-bursts,
      • blow ones top,
      • blow one top,
      • blow fuses,
      • blow one tops,
      • flip ones lids,
      • blow top,
      • blow one’s stacks.

      furor (noun)

      • out cries,
      • big stinks,
      • out-cries,
      • big scenes,
      • up-roar,
      • out-cry,
      • up-roars.

      fury (noun)

      • flareup,
      • in tensity,
      • rabidities,
      • tempestuousnesses,
      • boiling points,
      • rampancies,
      • slow burns,
      • in-tensity.

      hydrophobia (noun)

      • hydrophobia.

      hysteria (noun)

      • un reasons,
      • un reason,
      • un-reason,
      • unreasons,
      • feverishnesses,
      • un-reasons.

      idiocy (noun)

      • in sipidity,
      • fatuousnesses,
      • in-sipidities,
      • in sipidities,
      • asininities,
      • in-sipidity.

      imbecility (noun)

      • unwiseness,
      • fool trick,
      • horse feathers,
      • absurdness.

      insanity (noun)

      • irrationality,
      • hallucination,
      • battiness,
      • kookiness,
      • foolishness,
      • brain-sickness.

      irateness (noun)

      • wrathfulnesses.

      lyssa (noun)

      • lyssa.

      madness (noun)

      • insaneness,
      • rabies.

      mental illness (noun)

      • schizophrenia,
      • personality disorder,
      • mental sickness,
      • emotional disorder,
      • nervous disorder,
      • unbalanced mind,
      • Paranoias,
      • emotional instability,
      • maladjustment,
      • unsoundness of mind,
      • maladjustments,
      • disturbed mind,
      • Schizophrenias,
      • loss of mind,
      • Personality Disorders,
      • troubled mind,
      • sick mind,
      • Neurotic Disorders,
      • mental disease,
      • paranoia,
      • Neurotic Disorder.

      neurosis (noun)

      • in stability,
      • in stabilities,
      • in-stabilities,
      • crack ups,
      • neurasthenias,
      • in-stability,
      • psychological disorders.

      nonsense (noun)

      • non-sense,
      • non senses,
      • non-senses,
      • non sense,
      • pre tenses,
      • pre tense,
      • pre-tense.

      Other relevant words: (noun)

      • mental disorder,
      • softening of the brain,
      • idiocies,
      • stupidity,
      • hatefulness,
      • daftness,
      • fatuousness,
      • neurasthenia,
      • crackups,
      • wingdings,
      • sores,
      • Rabidity,
      • blow one’s top,
      • neurosis,
      • high spirits,
      • irateness,
      • Mads,
      • dumb trick,
      • tempestuousness,
      • feverishness,
      • psychological disorder,
      • jubilation,
      • inadvisability,
      • scribble,
      • recklessness,
      • dottiness,
      • banana,
      • witlessness,
      • big stink,
      • wingding,
      • hysterics,
      • dementia,
      • flip one’s lid,
      • big scene,
      • relaxation,
      • Rampancy,
      • mental deterioration,
      • wrath,
      • Asininity,
      • nonsense,
      • rantings,
      • crack-up,
      • rigmarole,
      • insanity,
      • crackup,
      • furor,
      • senselessness,
      • hell broke loose,
      • Mental Disorders,
      • nuttiness,
      • dumb thing to do,
      • joyousness,
      • fanaticism,
      • obliquity,
      • folly,
      • wackiness,
      • rage,
      • personality change,
      • TODO,
      • blow a fuse,
      • blow one’s cork,
      • flakiness,
      • to do,
      • wrathfulness,
      • jive,
      • zaniness,
      • cretinism,
      • slow burn,
      • unreason,
      • nonsensicality,
      • hysteric,
      • boiling point,
      • misguidedness,
      • fury,
      • obsession,
      • flare up,
      • silliness,
      • ferocities,
      • idiocy,
      • hysteria,
      • severity,
      • crack-ups,
      • frenzy,
      • Obliquities,
      • mental decay,
      • inhibition,
      • tommyrot,
      • euphoria,
      • brainlessness,
      • ferocity,
      • Cretinisms,
      • exaltation,
      • tomfoolery,
      • impetuosity,
      • jives.

      rage (noun)

      • ravings,
      • up set.

      stupidity (noun)

      • misguidednesses,
      • nonsensicalities.

      tomfoolery (noun)

      • Fooleries,
      • funny business,
      • carrying-on,
      • fooling around,
      • carryings-on.

      tommyrot (noun)

      • bunkum.

      wrath (noun)

      • dis pleasure,
      • dis-pleasure,
      • hatefulnesses,
      • dis-pleasures,
      • dis pleasures.
    • v.

      Other relevant words: (verb)

      • lividity.
    • Other synonyms:

      • brainsickness.

      • preposterousness.

      confusion

      • distraction.

      Other relevant words:

      • psychosis,
      • craziness,
      • condition,
      • absurdity,
      • quality,
      • mental illness,
      • delirium,
      • foolhardiness,
      • phobia,
      • emotion,
      • disorder,
      • delusion,
      • communicable disease,
      • mentality,
      • property,
      • lunacy,
      • aberration,
      • behavior,
      • derangement,
      • state of mind,
      • disease,
      • mental condition,
      • mania,
      • unbalance,
      • state,
      • psychopathy,
      • behaviour.

      Other relevant words (noun):

      • horror,
      • disgust,
      • mindlessness,
      • alkali disease,
      • soreness,
      • vaccinia,
      • weak-mindedness,
      • stolidness,
      • measles,
      • betise,
      • variola,
      • varicella,
      • disorientation,
      • herpes zoster,
      • education,
      • passion,
      • loathing,
      • inanity,
      • smallpox,
      • delirious,
      • mental deficiency,
      • frantic,
      • septic sore throat,
      • typhoid,
      • buffoonery,
      • diphtheria,
      • hatred,
      • mood,
      • furiousness,
      • typhus fever,
      • rickettsialpox,
      • eccentricity,
      • dumbness,
      • rapture,
      • book learning,
      • scholarship,
      • ineptitude,
      • abhorrence,
      • frenetic,
      • psittacosis,
      • thoughtlessness,
      • desperate,
      • thickheadedness,
      • jungle rot,
      • dengue fever,
      • leptospirosis,
      • futility,
      • Histoplasmosis,
      • folie,
      • strangeness,
      • infantile paralysis,
      • triviality,
      • weirdness,
      • possessed,
      • outrage,
      • repugnance,
      • nausea,
      • rubeola,
      • possession,
      • shingles,
      • abnormality,
      • attainments,
      • leprosy,
      • Phrensy,
      • five-day fever,
      • xenophobia,
      • indulgence,
      • raging,
      • ludicrousness,
      • cholera,
      • osteomyelitis,
      • tetanus,
      • teaching,
      • brain damage,
      • fierceness,
      • frivolity,
      • rudiments,
      • animosity,
      • letters,
      • parotitis,
      • illogicalness,
      • demented,
      • oddness,
      • pneumonia,
      • illogic,
      • ornithosis,
      • queasiness,
      • phrenitis,
      • yaws,
      • erysipelas,
      • intoxication,
      • turn,
      • ridiculousness,
      • ire,
      • frenzied,
      • frambesia,
      • raving,
      • Dilettantism,
      • meningitis,
      • ringworm,
      • Demency,
      • unsoundness,
      • typhus,
      • Encephalitis Lethargica,
      • strep throat,
      • anthrax,
      • zoster,
      • indignation,
      • impracticality,
      • vehemence,
      • throw,
      • foolery,
      • dysentery,
      • narrow-mindedness,
      • UNSOUND MIND,
      • amebiasis,
      • reckless,
      • parrot fever,
      • bigotry,
      • bias,
      • alienation,
      • bookishness,
      • wood,
      • mental alienation,
      • Madding,
      • influenza,
      • eumenides,
      • obtuseness,
      • venereal disease,
      • insane,
      • zona,
      • information,
      • simple mindedness,
      • acquisitions,
      • pertussis,
      • grippe,
      • undulant fever,
      • schistosomiasis,
      • goofiness,
      • tularemia,
      • Dementation,
      • hate,
      • rabbit fever,
      • flu,
      • rat-bite fever,
      • tinea,
      • confusion,
      • polio,
      • bubonic plague,
      • aversion,
      • liberal education,
      • dengue,
      • glandular fever,
      • Aversation,
      • angriness,
      • triflingness,
      • crazed,
      • bibliolatry,
      • cold sweat,
      • kissing disease,
      • sleepy sickness,
      • madden,
      • ecstasy,
      • lycanthropy,
      • abandon,
      • Sappiness,
      • transport,
      • lore,
      • tuberculosis,
      • malarial fever,
      • frivolousness,
      • fume,
      • black death,
      • stolidity,
      • cult,
      • trench mouth,
      • psychoneurosis,
      • milzbrand,
      • bootlessness,
      • acquirements,
      • detestation,
      • hookworm,
      • fatuity,
      • intolerance,
      • ravishment,
      • enteric fever,
      • infectious mononucleosis,
      • dumdum fever,
      • orgy,
      • ague,
      • mumps,
      • nonsensicalness,
      • terrific,
      • herpes,
      • jail fever,
      • furious,
      • Breakbone Fever,
      • wandering,
      • Loaiasis,
      • inflammatory rheumatism,
      • hepatitis,
      • Lepra,
      • accomplishments,
      • Acute Articular Rheumatism,
      • screwiness,
      • ponos,
      • spotted fever,
      • lockjaw,
      • angry,
      • pointlessness,
      • sleeping sickness,
      • yellow fever,
      • Loa loa,
      • learning,
      • splenic fever,
      • beginning,
      • Unwisdom,
      • shuddering,
      • unsavory,
      • fad,
      • antipathy,
      • dandy fever,
      • elephantiasis,
      • spleen,
      • skill,
      • extravagant,
      • paratyphoid fever,
      • mental derangement,
      • Birse,
      • black fever,
      • prejudice,
      • deer fly fever,
      • whooping cough,
      • pixilation,
      • dippiness,
      • illogicality,
      • abomination,
      • incoherence,
      • brucellosis,
      • erudition,
      • Chicken pox,
      • risibility,
      • thrush,
      • manic disorder,
      • marsh fever,
      • giddiness,
      • dopiness,
      • mad,
      • beside oneself,
      • trench fever,
      • mental disturbance,
      • furore,
      • Averseness,
      • reading,
      • distracted,
      • irresponsibility,
      • yellow jack,
      • feeblemindedness,
      • daffiness,
      • bacillary dysentery,
      • Nugacity,
      • rashness,
      • swamp fever,
      • proficiency,
      • feeble-mindedness,
      • wildness,
      • crankiness,
      • culture,
      • bonkers,
      • rubella,
      • Clownishness,
      • poliomyelitis,
      • desperation,
      • malaria,
      • relapsing fever,
      • scarlatina,
      • reasonlessness,
      • typhoid fever,
      • dementedness,
      • craze,
      • cowpox,
      • queerness,
      • scarlet fever,
      • deranged,
      • Zanyism,
      • despair,
      • rheumatic fever,
      • cachectic fever,
      • orgasm,
      • anger,
      • rabid,
      • amebic dysentery,
      • blackwater fever,
      • bibliomania,
      • choler,
      • literature,
      • sickness,
      • herpes simplex.

    How to use «Madness» in context?

    There is no one answer to what madness is, because insanity is something that manifests itself differently in everyone. For some, it can be a fleeting feeling that prompts them to do something reckless, while for others, it might be a more consistent problem that leads to difficulties in everyday life. Some people might say that madness is a break from reality, while others might believe that madness is a state of mind that is creative and inspired. No matter what someone believes, there is no doubt that madness is a captivating and mysterious experience.

    Paraphrases for Madness:

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    • Equivalence

      • Adjective
        lunacy.
      • Proper noun, singular
        folly.
      • Noun, singular or mass
        craziness, folly, foolishness, lunacy.
    • Independent

      • Adjective
        crazy, foolish.
      • Proper noun, singular
        crazy.
      • Noun, singular or mass
        crazy, delusion, maniac, nonsense, rage, senseless, stupidity.
      • Interjection
        zee.
      • Verb, past participle
        deranged.
    • Other Related

      • Adjective
        insane.
      • Noun, singular or mass
        absurdity, delirium, insane, mania, obsession, sanity, Madmen.
      • Interjection
        crazy.

    Homophones for Madness:

    • matins, matting, myotonic, muntingia, momentaneous, mountain ash, mediateness, mountain oak, Montan Wax, monotonous, meat-eating, minuteness, moodiness, meeting, mutinous, meetinghouse, medium-size, mending, monotonic, mounting, muteness, mutinus, monoatomic, meeting house, monatomic, metonymic, muddiness, maintenance, mandamus, meadow mouse, mundaneness, Mount Adams, mating, maddening, mountainous.

    Hyponym for Madness:

    • n.

      • attribute
        enthusiasm, ebullience, exuberance.

    Collins

    1    aberration, craziness, delusion, dementia, derangement, distraction, insanity, lunacy, mania, mental illness, psychopathy, psychosis  

    2    absurdity, daftness     (informal)   folly, foolhardiness, foolishness, idiocy, nonsense, preposterousness, wildness  

    3    anger, exasperation, frenzy, fury, ire, rage, raving, wildness, wrath  

    4    ardour, craze, enthusiasm, fanaticism, fondness, infatuation, keenness, passion, rage, zeal  

    5    abandon, agitation, excitement, frenzy, furore, intoxication, riot, unrestraint, uproar  

    English Collins Dictionary — English synonyms & Thesaurus  

    Collins

    mad

         ( madder    comparative)   ( maddest    superlative  )

    1       adj   Someone who is mad has a mind that does not work in a normal way, with the result that their behaviour is very strange.  
    (=insane)  

    She was afraid of going mad.     

       madness             n-uncount  
    He was driven to the brink of madness.     

    2       adj   You use mad to describe people or things that you think are very foolish.,   (disapproval)
      

    (=crazy)  

    You’d be mad to work with him again…, Isn’t that a rather mad idea?     

       madness             n-uncount  
    It is political madness.     

    3       adj   If you say that someone is mad, you mean that they are very angry.  
    INFORMAL   usu v-link ADJ, oft ADJ at/about n  
    You’re just mad at me because I don’t want to go…     

    4       adj   If you are mad about or mad on something or someone, you like them very much indeed.  
    INFORMAL   v-link ADJ about/on n  
    She’s not as mad about sport as I am…, He’s mad about you…, He’s mad on trains.     
          Mad is also a combining form., comb in adj  
    …his football-mad son…, He’s not power-mad.     

    5       adj   Mad behaviour is wild and uncontrolled.  
    You only have an hour to complete the game so it’s a mad dash against the clock…, The audience went mad.     

      madly      adv   ADV with v  
    Down in the streets people were waving madly.     

    6    If you say that someone or something drives you mad, you mean that you find them extremely annoying.  
    INFORMAL  

    drive sb mad      phrase   V inflects  
    There are certain things he does that drive me mad…, This itching is driving me mad.     

    7    If you do something like mad, you do it very energetically or enthusiastically.  
    INFORMAL  

    like mad      phrase   PHR after v  
    He was weight training like mad.     

    8   
      
      madly  

      
      mad keen  

      
      keen  

    Translation English Cobuild Collins Dictionary  

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    • absurdity
    • craziness
    • delusion
    • foolishness
    • hysteria
    • lunacy
    • mania
    • mental illness
    • stupidity
    • aberration
    • delirium
    • derangement
    • fanaticism
    • irrationality
    • neurosis
    • phobia
    • psychopathy
    • psychosis
    • unbalance
    • mental disorder

    On this page you’ll find 54 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to madness, such as: absurdity, craziness, delusion, foolishness, hysteria, and lunacy.

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    WORDS RELATED TO MADNESS

    • craziness
    • derangement
    • insaneness
    • lunacy
    • madness
    • mental disorder
    • mental illness
    • psychopathy
    • psychosis
    • unsoundness
    • brainsickness
    • derangement
    • insaneness
    • insanity
    • lunacy
    • madness
    • mental disorder
    • mental illness
    • psychopathy
    • psychosis
    • unsoundness
    • crack-up
    • insanity
    • lunacy
    • madness
    • mania
    • carelessness
    • defiance
    • foolhardiness
    • frenzy
    • heedlessness
    • impetuosity
    • madness
    • recklessness
    • bliss
    • dreamland
    • ecstasy
    • elation
    • exaltation
    • exhilaration
    • exultation
    • frenzy
    • glee
    • health
    • high spirits
    • intoxication
    • joy
    • joyousness
    • jubilation
    • madness
    • rapture
    • relaxation
    • transport
    • abandonment
    • arbitrariness
    • bias
    • bigotry
    • contumacy
    • dedication
    • devotion
    • dogma
    • enthusiasm
    • extremism
    • faction
    • frenzy
    • hatred
    • immoderation
    • incorrigibility
    • infatuation
    • injustice
    • intolerance
    • madness
    • monomania
    • obsessiveness
    • obstinacy
    • partiality
    • partisanship
    • passion
    • prejudice
    • rage
    • single-mindedness
    • stubbornness
    • superstition
    • tenacity
    • transport
    • unfairness
    • unreasonableness
    • unruliness
    • violence
    • willfulness
    • zeal
    • zealotry

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