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Madness   /mˈædnəs/   Listen
Madness

noun
1.
Obsolete terms for legal insanity.  Synonyms: insaneness, lunacy.
2.
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.  Synonyms: hydrophobia, lyssa, rabies.
3.
A feeling of intense anger.  Synonyms: fury, rage.  "His face turned red with rage"
4.
The quality of being rash and foolish.  Synonyms: craziness, folly, foolishness.  "Adjusting to an insane society is total foolishness"
5.
Unrestrained excitement or enthusiasm.  Synonyms: rabidity, rabidness.






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... Jimmy, inflamed to the point of madness. He was in command at this point now, following the death of the lieutenant. "Come on! Make 'em pay for that!" He choked back his sobs, for the lieutenant was ...
— The Khaki Boys Over the Top - Doing and Daring for Uncle Sam • Gordon Bates

... madness, sir," the high dignitary cried out with wrath. "You say that wood belonging to the state was stolen. And at the time when these thefts were ...
— Contemporary Russian Novelists • Serge Persky

... interests of its favorites the value and production of the labor and property of every man in this extended country had been so fully and fearfully developed; when it was notorious that all classes of this great community had, by means of the power and influence it thus possesses, been infected to madness with a spirit of heedless speculation; when it had been seen that, secure in the support of the combination of influences by which it was surrounded, it could violate its charter and set the laws at defiance with impunity; and when, too, ...
— State of the Union Addresses of Martin van Buren • Martin van Buren

... she certainly in this respect went too far. In the midst of religious and political parties, pursued by suspicion and slander, and in herself too tormented by jealousy, endangered rather than guarded by the possession of the highest dignity, she fell into a state of excitement bordering on madness. ...
— A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) • Leopold von Ranke

... and just as though a pit had opened before him he drew back. He must stop this double life at once and become his own self in reality; failing to do that he would meet madness. He recognised this. No man's brain could stand what he had been going through for long; had he been left to himself he might have adapted his mind gradually to the perpetual shifting from Jones to Rochester and vice versa. The woman had brought things to a crisis. The horror that ...
— The Man Who Lost Himself • H. De Vere Stacpoole


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