Main entry: madness, rabidity, rabidness
Definition: unrestrained excitement or enthusiasm
Usage: poetry is a sort of divine madness
Main entry: folly, foolishness, craziness, madness
Definition: the quality of being rash and foolish
Usage: trying to drive through a blizzard is the height of folly; adjusting to an insane society is total foolishness
Main entry: madness, fury, rage
Definition: a feeling of intense anger
Usage: hell hath no fury like a woman scorned; his face turned red with rage
Main entry: lyssa, madness, hydrophobia, rabies
Definition: 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
Main entry: insaneness, lunacy, madness
Definition: obsolete terms for legal insanity