insanity

insanity
n
1. lunacy, derangement, madness, Psychiatry. dementia, dementedness, insaneness; distraction, disorientation, unbalance, unsoundness; mental illness, loss of reason, unsound mind, diseased mind; craziness, Sl. kookiness, Inf. nuttiness, daftness, brainsickness; eccentricity, oddness, queerness; All Sl. balminess, bugginess, screwiness, wackiness, goofiness.
2. psychosis, neurosis, psychoneurosis; schizophrenia, Psychiatry. dementia praecox, monomania, auto-mania, dipsomania, pyromania, delusion of grandeur; senility, anility, dotage, Psychiatry. amentia; Psychol. kleptomania, Psychol. split personality; All Psychiatry. melancholia, hypochondria, paranoia, mania, lys-sophobia, fugue, alienation, delusion.
3. frenzy, franticness, furor, delirium, phrenitis, anoesis, hysteria; Pathol. delirium tremens, blue devils, Sl. the horrors, Sl. jimjams; ranting, raving, storming, foaming at the mouth; storminess, fierceness, tumult, tumultuousness, turbulence, violence.
4. absurdity, absurdness, silliness, inanity, fatuousness, sottage, foolishness, folly; irrationality, illogic, illogicality, illogicalness, unreasonableness; senselessness, nonsense, nonsensicalness, nonsensicality, Obs. morology, pointlessness; ridiculousness, ridiculosity, ludicrousness; asininity, imbecility, idiocy, Inf. moronism, Inf. moronity; light-headedness, harebrainedness; childishness, puerility, immaturity.
5. impracticality, unsensibleness, preposterousness, unreasonableness; inappropriateness, impropriety, ineptitude, ineptness, incongruity, inconsistency; imprudence, indiscretion; irresponsibility, carelessness, unwariness, foolhardiness, recklessness.

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