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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

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Adj.

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The condition of being mad; insanity; lunacy.

Frenzy; ungovernable rage.

Extreme folly.

Syn. – Insanity; distraction; derangement; craziness; lunacy; mania; frenzy; franticness; rage; aberration; alienation; monomania. See

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.

Extreme folly; headstrong passion and rashness that act in opposition to reason; as the madness of a mob.

Wildness of passion; fury; rage; as the madness of despair.