Insanity
[ɪn'sænətɪ] or [ɪn'sænəti]
Definition
(n.) The state of being insane; unsoundness or derangement of mind; madness; lunacy.
(n.) Such a mental condition, as, either from the existence of delusions, or from incapacity to distinguish between right and wrong, with regard to any matter under action, does away with individual responsibility.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Derangement, lunacy, craziness, DEMENTIA, mania, madness, delirium, aberration of mind, alienation of mind.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:{Mental_aberration}, mental_unsoundness,[See LUNACY]
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Examples
- He had a peculiar eye, and I made up my mind that there was a strain of insanity somewhere. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The knowledge that drunkenness or insanity has been prevalent in a family may be the best safeguard against their recurrence in a future generation. Plato. The Republic.
- I felt that this was insanity--I sprang forward to throw it off; I rushed into the midst of the crowd. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Were there insanity in the family, I should believe you mad. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He had all his life been tortured by a furious and destructive demon, which possessed him sometimes like an insanity. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- This produced a settled gloom, which in time developed a morbid insanity, and finally terminated in raving madness. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- This influence had become more harassing and decided, since partial insanity had given a strange, weird, unsettled cast to all her words and language. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- No trace of his past insanity remained, to dash my joy with sorrow. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Any ass can see it means insanity! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- To think of him as Miss Crawford might be justified in thinking, would in her be insanity. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- I well knew that if any other had communicated such a relation to me, I should have looked upon it as the ravings of insanity. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Taken literally, they are absurd pretensions; they indicate insanity. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- I think in that instant I hovered upon the verge of insanity. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- You have been sadly visited; nor do I wonder that a feeling akin to insanity should drive you to bitter and unreasonable imaginings. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Turning her thoughts this way, I gave them an object which rescued them from insanity. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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