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Webster 1913 Edition
Lunacy
1.
Insanity or madness; properly, the kind of insanity which is broken by intervals of reason, – formerly supposed to be influenced by the changes of the moon; any form of unsoundness of mind, except idiocy; mental derangement or alienation.
Brande.
Burrill.
Your kindred shuns your house
As beaten hence by your strange
As beaten hence by your strange
lunacy
. Shakespeare
Syn. – Derangement; craziness; mania. See
Insanity
. Webster 1828 Edition
Lunacy
LU'NACY
,Noun.
1.
A species of insanity of madness, supposed to be influenced by the moon, or periodical in the month.2.
Madness in general.Definition 2024
lunacy
lunacy
English
Noun
lunacy (countable and uncountable, plural lunacies)
- (of a person or group of people) The state of being mad, insanity
- a cyclical mental disease, apparently linked to the lunar phases
- insanity implying legal irresponsibility.
- Something deeply misguided.
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state of being mad
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cyclical mental disease, apparently linked to the lunar phases
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