'Madness' definitions:
Definition of 'madness'
From: WordNet
noun
Obsolete terms for legal insanity [syn: lunacy, madness, insaneness]
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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 [syn: rabies, hydrophobia, lyssa, madness]
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A feeling of intense anger; "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"; "his face turned red with rage" [syn: fury, rage, madness]
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The quality of being rash and foolish; "trying to drive through a blizzard is the height of folly"; "adjusting to an insane society is total foolishness" [syn: folly, foolishness, craziness, madness]
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Definition of 'Madness'
From: GCIDE
- Madness \Mad"ness\, n. [From Mad, a.]
- 1. The condition of being mad; insanity; lunacy. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Frenzy; ungovernable rage. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Extreme folly. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Insanity; distraction; derangement; craziness; lunacy; mania; frenzy; franticness; rage; aberration; alienation; monomania. See Insanity. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Madness'
From: Easton
- Madness This word is used in its proper sense in Deut. 28:34, John 10:20, 1 Cor. 14:23. It also denotes a reckless state of mind arising from various causes, as over-study (Eccl. 1:17; 2:12), blind rage (Luke 6:11), or a depraved temper (Eccl. 7:25; 9:3; 2 Pet. 2:16). David feigned madness (1 Sam. 21:13) at Gath because he "was sore afraid of Achish."
Synonyms of 'madness'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abandon,
- aberration,
- abnormality,
- acute articular rheumatism,
- African lethargy,
- ague,
- alienation,
- alkali disease,
- amebiasis,
- amebic dysentery,
- anthrax,
- Asiatic cholera,
- asininity,
- bacillary dysentery,
- bastard measles,
- battiness,
- black death,
- black fever,
- blackwater fever,
- brain damage,
- brainlessness,
- brainsickness,
- breakbone fever,
- brucellosis,
- bubonic plague,
- buffoonery,
- cachectic fever,
- cerebral rheumatism,
- Chagres fever,
- chicken pox,
- cholera,
- clouded mind,
- clownishness,
- cowpox,
- crackpottedness,
- crankiness,
- craze,
- craziness,
- daffiness,
- daftness,
- dandy fever,
- deer fly fever,
- delirium,
- dementedness,
- dementia,
- dengue,
- dengue fever,
- derangement,
- desipience,
- diphtheria,
- disorientation,
- distraction,
- dumdum fever,
- dysentery,
- eccentricity,
- ecstasy,
- elephantiasis,
- encephalitis lethargica,
- enteric fever,
- erysipelas,
- famine fever,
- fatuity,
- fatuousness,
- fire and fury,
- five-day fever,
- flu,
- folie,
- folly,
- foolery,
- foolheadedness,
- foolishness,
- frambesia,
- frenzy,
- frivolity,
- frivolousness,
- furor,
- furore,
- fury,
- futility,
- German measles,
- giddiness,
- glandular fever,
- goofiness,
- grippe,
- hansenosis,
- Haverhill fever,
- hepatitis,
- herpes,
- herpes simplex,
- herpes zoster,
- histoplasmosis,
- hookworm,
- hydrophobia,
- hysteria,
- idiocy,
- illogic,
- illogicality,
- illogicalness,
- imbecility,
- impracticality,
- inanity,
- ineptitude,
- infantile paralysis,
- infectious mononucleosis,
- inflammatory rheumatism,
- influenza,
- insaneness,
- insanity,
- intoxication,
- irrationality,
- jail fever,
- jungle rot,
- kala azar,
- kissing disease,
- lepra,
- leprosy,
- leptospirosis,
- loa loa,
- loaiasis,
- lockjaw,
- loss of mind,
- loss of reason,
- lunacy,
- malaria,
- malarial fever,
- mania,
- marsh fever,
- measles,
- meningitis,
- mental deficiency,
- mental derangement,
- mental disease,
- mental disorder,
- mental disturbance,
- mental illness,
- mental instability,
- mental sickness,
- milzbrand,
- mind overthrown,
- mindlessness,
- mindsickness,
- mumps,
- niaiserie,
- nonsense,
- nugacity,
- nuttiness,
- oddness,
- orgasm,
- orgy,
- ornithosis,
- osteomyelitis,
- paratyphoid fever,
- parotitis,
- parrot fever,
- passion,
- pertussis,
- pixilation,
- pneumonia,
- pointlessness,
- polio,
- poliomyelitis,
- polyarthritis rheumatism,
- ponos,
- possession,
- preposterousness,
- psittacosis,
- psychopathy,
- psychosis,
- queerness,
- rabbit fever,
- rabidness,
- rabies,
- rage,
- rapture,
- rat-bite fever,
- ravishment,
- reasonlessness,
- relapsing fever,
- rheumatic fever,
- rickettsialpox,
- ridiculousness,
- ringworm,
- rubella,
- rubeola,
- sappiness,
- scarlatina,
- scarlet fever,
- schistosomiasis,
- screwiness,
- senselessness,
- septic sore throat,
- shattered mind,
- shingles,
- sick mind,
- sickness,
- silliness,
- sleeping sickness,
- sleepy sickness,
- smallpox,
- snail fever,
- splenic fever,
- spotted fever,
- strangeness,
- strep throat,
- stupidity,
- swamp fever,
- tearing passion,
- tetanus,
- thoughtlessness,
- thrush,
- tinea,
- towering rage,
- transport,
- trench fever,
- trench mouth,
- triflingness,
- triviality,
- tuberculosis,
- tularemia,
- typhoid,
- typhoid fever,
- typhus,
- typhus fever,
- unbalance,
- unbalanced mind,
- undulant fever,
- unsaneness,
- unsound mind,
- unsoundness,
- unsoundness of mind,
- vaccinia,
- varicella,
- variola,
- venereal disease,
- viral dysentery,
- wackiness,
- weirdness,
- whooping cough,
- witlessness,
- yaws,
- yellow fever,
- yellow jack,
- zaniness,
- zanyism,
- zona,
- zoster
Words containing 'Madness'
- Mad,
- Madded,
- Madding,
- Maddingly,
- Madly,
- mad about,
- Canine madness,
- Like mad,
- Mad apple,
- Moon madness,
- To run mad,
- To run mad after,
- To run mad on,
- mad dog,
- money mad,
- raving mad,
- As mad as a March Hare,
- Horn-mad,
- Mad-apple,
- Mad-headed,
- March-mad,
- mad anthony wayne,
- mad cow disease,
- stark raving mad,
- Mad-dog skullcap,
- mad-dog weed