madness (n.)

  1. obsolete terms for legal insanity

    [ Syn: lunacy , insaneness ]

  2. 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 ]

  3. a feeling of intense anger; hell hath no fury like a woman scorned; his face turned red with rage

    [ Syn: fury , rage ]

  4. 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 ]

  5. unrestrained excitement or enthusiasm; poetry is a sort of divine madness

    [ Syn: rabidity , rabidness ]

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