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Webster 1913 Edition


Madness

Mad′ness

,
Noun.
[From
Mad
,
Adj.
]
1.
The condition of being mad; insanity; lunacy.
2.
Frenzy; ungovernable rage.
3.
Extreme folly.
Syn. – Insanity; distraction; derangement; craziness; lunacy; mania; frenzy; franticness; rage; aberration; alienation; monomania. See
Insanity
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Madness

MAD'NESS

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Noun.
[from mad.] Distraction; a state of disordered reason or intellect, in which the patient raves or is furious.
There are degrees of madness as of folly.
1.
Extreme folly; headstrong passion and rashness that act in opposition to reason; as the madness of a mob.
2.
Wildness of passion; fury; rage; as the madness of despair.

Definition 2024


madness

madness

English

Noun

madness (countable and uncountable, plural madnesses)

  1. The state of being mad; insanity; mental disease.
  2. rash folly

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  • See also Wikisaurus:insanity

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