Madness
['mædnɪs] or ['mædnəs]
Definition
(noun.) unrestrained excitement or enthusiasm; 'poetry is a sort of divine madness'.
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Definition
(a.) The condition of being mad; insanity; lunacy.
(a.) Frenzy; ungovernable rage; extreme folly.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Insanity, derangement, craziness, lunacy, distraction, MANIA, mental aberration.[2]. Frenzy, fury, rage.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Insanity, frenzy, rage, fury
ANT:Sanity, calmness, soberness,[See LUNACY]
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of being mad, shows trouble ahead for the dreamer. Sickness, by which you will lose property, is threatened. To see others suffering under this malady, denotes inconstancy of friends and gloomy ending of bright expectations. For a young woman to dream of madness, foretells disappointment in marriage and wealth.
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Examples
- But being soured, Mr Wegg, and driven to reckless madness and desperation, I suppose it's Yes. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Her half-brother had now ample means again, but what with debts and what with new madness wasted them most fearfully again. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Madness, anyhow. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- No delusion--no madness: your mind, sir, is too strong for delusion, your health too sound for frenzy. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Miserliness is a capital quality to run in families; it's the safe side for madness to dip on. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- If they don't see their madness before the end of that time, I must have hands from Ireland. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- It's not Madness, ma'am,' replied Mr. Bumble, after a few moments of deep meditation. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- No; that is madness indeed; absolute madness. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- That way madness lies: I could not listen to another word. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- It was a madness in me, and she could raise it whenever she liked. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- What blindness, what madness, had led her on! Jane Austen. Emma.
- It was like a madness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It would be madness if I asked you to escape; but do I? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- But what madness must it be to _run in debt_ for these superfluities? Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- But I can never forgive the misery and desolation your madness has occasioned, continued Rowena. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
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