madness

[Mad·ness]

Madness is foolish, impulsive behavior. It would be madness to ride on the back of your friend's car, standing on the bumper.

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The condition of being mad; insanity; lunacy.

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

Noun
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

Noun
obsolete terms for legal insanity


a.
The condition of being mad; insanity; lunacy.

a.
Frenzy; ungovernable rage; extreme folly.


Madness

Mad"ness, n. [From Mad, a.] 1. The condition of being mad; insanity; lunacy. 2. Frenzy; ungovernable rage; extreme folly. Syn. -- Insanity; distraction; derangement; craziness; lunacy; mania; frenzy; franticness; rage; aberration; alienation; monomania. See Insanity.

The condition of being mad; insanity; lunacy.

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Usage Examples

Anger is a short madness.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.

About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.

A whole lot of us believers, of all different religions, are ready to turn back the tide of madness by walking together, in both the dark and the light - in other words, through life - registering voters as we go, and keeping the faith.

In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.

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Other Usage Examples

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Books have led some to learning and others to madness.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning.

I'll give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music-everything is based on music. No, I'll never stop my music.

It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.

Excess of grief for the dead is madness for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

Clinton is a big personality who has led a big life, and for some of the media conventional wisdom to boil it down to a view that 'all people are really interested in' are a few moments of madness in the Oval Office gets him, the importance of the presidency, and the significance of his life, all wrong.

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