Sanity
['sænɪtɪ] or ['sænəti]
Definition
(n.) The condition or quality of being sane; soundness of health of body or mind, especially of the mind; saneness.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Saneness, soundness.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Rationality, soundness, reasonableness, lucidity, wisdom
ANT:Insanity, madness, lunacy, derangement, alienation, dementation, hallucination,folly
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Definition
n. state of being sane: soundness of mind or body.
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Examples
- She uses some odd expressions, but is as cordial and full of heart as sanity itself can be--more so than it often is. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- But I suppose you have found out your mistake, my dear, said Mrs. Cadwallader, and that is a proof of sanity. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The beneficent effect of their activities on the health and general welfare of the masses of the people bears witness to the sanity and worth of the culture th at prompted these activities. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Even admitting that the size and weight of his low-tension conductors necessitated putting them underground, this argues nothing against the propriety and sanity of his methods. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I knew that I was on Mars; not once did I question either my sanity or my wakefulness. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- That you are a princess does not abash me, but that you are you is enough to make me doubt my sanity as I ask you, my princess, to be mine. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Mixed with the craziness of Olympias in Alexander was the sanity of Philip and the teachings of Aristotle. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The dominating fact, nevertheless, is a new sanity. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And what hand but hers could drag him up again to a footing of sanity and self-respect? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- But if so, he preferred his own madness, to the regular sanity. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Five or six had already hatched and the grotesque caricatures which sat blinking in the sunlight were enough to cause me to doubt my sanity. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- He did not want that old sanity of the world, which was become so repulsive. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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