mad·ness (m d n s)n. 1. The quality or condition of being insane. See Synonyms at insanity. 2. Great folly: It was sheer madness to attempt the drive during a blizzard. 3. Fury; rage. 4. Enthusiasm; excitement. |
madness [ˈmædnɪs]
n
1. insanity; lunacy
2. extreme anger, excitement, or foolishness
3. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Veterinary Science) a nontechnical word for rabies
ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
| Noun | 1. |  madness - obsolete terms for legal insanity insanity - relatively permanent disorder of the mind |
| 2. | madness - 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 zoonosis, zoonotic disease - an animal disease that can be transmitted to humans | |
| 3. |  madness - a feeling of intense anger; "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"; "his face turned red with rage"anger, ire, choler - a strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance wrath - intense anger (usually on an epic scale) lividity - a state of fury so great the face becomes discolored | |
| 4. | madness - 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" stupidity - a poor ability to understand or to profit from experience | |
| 5. | madness - unrestrained excitement or enthusiasm; "poetry is a sort of divine madness" |
madness
noun
1. insanity, mental illness, delusion, mania, dementia, distraction, aberration, psychosis, lunacy, craziness, derangement, psychopathy He was driven to the brink of madness.
2. foolishness, nonsense, folly, absurdity, idiocy, wildness, daftness (informal), foolhardiness, preposterousness It is political madness.
3. frenzy, riot, furore, uproar, abandon, excitement, agitation, intoxication, unrestraint The country was in a state of madness
Quotations
"We are all born mad. Some remain so" [Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot]
"Though this be madness, yet there's method in't" [William Shakespeare Hamlet]
"O! that way madness lies; let me shun that" [William Shakespeare King Lear]
"What is a more irrefutable proof of madness than an inability to have a doubt?" [Sir Peter Ustinov Dear Me]
"We are all born mad. Some remain so" [Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot]
"Though this be madness, yet there's method in't" [William Shakespeare Hamlet]
"O! that way madness lies; let me shun that" [William Shakespeare King Lear]
"What is a more irrefutable proof of madness than an inability to have a doubt?" [Sir Peter Ustinov Dear Me]
Translations
madness [ˈmædnɪs] N
madness [ˈmædnəs] n → folie f
It's absolute madness → C'est de la pure folie.
in a moment of madness → dans un moment de folie
it would be madness to do ... → ce serait de la folie de faire ...
It is madness for the police to remain unarmed
BUT C'est de la folie que la police ne soit toujours pas armée.
It's absolute madness → C'est de la pure folie.
in a moment of madness → dans un moment de folie
it would be madness to do ... → ce serait de la folie de faire ...
It is madness for the police to remain unarmed
BUT C'est de la folie que la police ne soit toujours pas armée.
madness
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