Definitions for madness

Definitions for (noun) madness

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


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