Sanity

[san·i·ty]

Sanity is the opposite of insanity. When you have sanity, you're mentally healthy and not acting crazy.

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The condition or quality of being sane; soundness of health of body or mind, especially of the mind; saneness.

Noun
normal or sound powers of mind


n.
The condition or quality of being sane; soundness of health of body or mind, especially of the mind; saneness.


Sanity

San"i*ty , n. [L. saniras, from sanus sound, healthy. See Sane.] The condition or quality of being sane; soundness of health of body or mind, especially of the mind; saneness.

The condition or quality of being sane; soundness of health of body or mind, especially of the mind; saneness.

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Usage Examples

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.

'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being the difference between sanity and insanity the meaning of life and death what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad.

We are all used to paying a sales tax when we buy things - almost 9 percent here in New York City. The application of this concept to the financial sector could solve our need for revenue, bring some sanity back into the financial sector, and give us a way to raise the revenue we need to run the government in a fiscally responsible way.

Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things.

I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing.

Having a sense of humor has served me more than it has hurt me - just in the sense that it has allowed me to keep my sanity.

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Other Usage Examples

You've got to have a sense of humor to keep your sanity.

How can a doctor judge a woman's sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release? Even the sick ones know it is useless to say anything, for the answer will be that it is their imagination.

You have to keep your sanity as well as know how to distance yourself from it while still holding onto the reins tightly. That is a very difficult thing to do, but I'm learning.

I think that the best way to explain that is that my mother gave me all the color and character and flare and liveliness, and my father gave me all the sanity and nature and all the things that helped me be a more rounded human being.

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

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