Insanity

Noun

 * 1) The state of being insane; madness.

Adjectives for Insanity
true; warlike; intellectual; temporary; dire; pious; incipient; incurable; speculative; hysterical; harmless; systematic; delusional; hereditary.

Verbs for Insanity
anticipate—; banish—; border on—; condemn to—; correct—; detect—; discern—; drive to—; hush—; lament—; lead to—; observe—; plead—; produce—; sense—; simulate—; subdue—; suffer—; thrust into —; treat—; —desolates; —imprisons; — seizes; overcome—.

Thesaurus
lunacy, madness, maladjustment, mania, manic-depressive psychosis, melancholia, mental defectiveness, mental deficiency, mental derangement, mental disorder, mental handicap, mental illness, mental retardation, mindlessness, mongolianism, mongolism, mongoloid idiocy, moronism, moronity, nervous breakdown, nervous disorder, neurosis, niaiserie, nonsense, nugacity, nuttiness, paranoia, personality disorder, preposterousness, problems in living, profound idiocy, psychoneurosis, psychopathy, psychosis, queerness, reaction, retardation, retardment, sappiness, schizophrenia, screwiness, senselessness, silliness, simple-wittedness, simplemindedness, simpleness, simplicity, social maladjustment, stupidity, subnormality, thoughtlessness, triflingness, triviality, unbalance, unreasonableness, wackiness, weirdness, witlessness, zaniness, zanyism, aberration, absurdity, alienation, amentia, arrested development, asininity, backwardness, battiness, blithering idiocy, brain disease, brainlessness, buffoonery, clownishness, crack-up, crackpottedness, crankiness, craziness, cretinism, daffiness, delirium, delusion, dementia praecox, derangement, desipience, distraction, dotage, dottiness, eccentricity, emotional disorder, emotional instability, fatuity, fatuousness, folly, foolery, foolheadedness, foolishness, frenzy, frivolity, frivolousness, functional nervous disorder, giddiness, goofiness, half-wittedness, hallucination, hysteria, idiocy, idiotism, illusion, imbecility, impracticality, inanity, ineptitude, infantilism, insaneness, irrationality, irresponsibility,

Etymology
A three-part word (root 'sane', prefix 'in-' meaning 'not', suffix '-ity', meaning 'the state of'). Derived from Latin precursory equivalents. Two possible candidates for construction order:


 * "insane+-ity":
 * insanus: < in-: + sanus:. Modern forms of roots: in- + sane
 * "in- + sanity":.
 * sanitas: < . Modern forms of roots: sane + -ity

Antonyms

 * sanity

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:insanity

Related terms

 * insane

Translations

 * Albanian: marrëzi
 * Arabic: الجنون
 * Azerbaijani: ağılsızlıq
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 瘋病, 疯病, 精神錯亂, 精神错乱
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: sindssyge,, vanvid
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: frenezeco
 * Estonian: vaimuhaigus
 * Filipino: pagkasiraulo
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: სიგიჟე (sigizhe)
 * German:
 * Greek: παραφροσύνη (paraphrosýnē)
 * Hungarian:


 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 精神異常 (せいしん いじょう) (seishin ijō)
 * Korean: 광기 (goanggi)
 * Latvian: ārprāts
 * Lithuanian: beprotis
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian: ديوانگى
 * Polish: obłęd
 * Portuguese: insanidade
 * Romanian: demență, alienație mintală, nebunie
 * Russian:
 * Serbian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: sinnessjukdom
 * Telugu: పిచ్చి (pichchi)
 * Turkish: delılıq
 * Vietnamese: tính trạng điên
 * Welsh: gorffwylltra
 * Yiddish: meshugas