obsolete terms for legal insanity
[ Syn: lunacy , insaneness ]
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 ]
a feeling of intense anger; hell hath no fury like a woman scorned; his face turned red with rage
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 ]
unrestrained excitement or enthusiasm; poetry is a sort of divine madness