insanity

[in·san·i·ty]

Insanity is an ongoing state of extreme mental illness, which may cause abnormal or antisocial behaviors. If you bark at cats and meow at dogs, you might suffer from insanity.

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The state of being insane; unsoundness or derangement of mind; madness; lunacy.

Noun
relatively permanent disorder of the mind

n.
The state of being insane; unsoundness or derangement of mind; madness; lunacy.

n.
Such a mental condition, as, either from the existence of delusions, or from incapacity to distinguish between right and wrong, with regard to any matter under action, does away with individual responsibility.

Insanity

In*san"i*ty , n. [L. insanitas unsoundness; cf. insania insanity, F. insanite.] 1. The state of being insane; unsoundness or derangement of mind; madness; lunacy.

All power of fancy overreason is a degree of insanity.

Without grace The heart's insanity admits no cure.

2. (Law) Such a mental condition, as, either from the existence of delusions, or from incapacity to distinguish between right and wrong, with regard to any matter under action, does away with individual responsibility. Syn>- Insanity, Lunacy, Madness, Derangement, Aliention, Aberration, Mania, Delirium, Frenzy, Monomania, Dementia. Insanity is the generic term for all such diseases; lunacy has now an equal extent of meaning, though once used to denote periodical insanity; madness has the same extent, though originally referring to the rage created by the disease; derangement, alienation, are popular terms for insanity; delirium, mania, and frenzy denote excited states of the disease; dementia denotes the loss of mental power by this means; monomania is insanity upon a single subject.

The state of being insane; unsoundness or derangement of mind; madness; lunacy.

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Usage Examples

To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity.

There's the Hollywood sign there's Griffith Observatory there's the great, amazing Los Angeles Basin. It's 465 square miles of insanity and the best food on the planet.

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.

People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don't want to know nothing about you!

I think the hardest thing about making music now is being a great dad at the same time. There's an insanity that goes with writing - a mad scientist thing that you have to go through - and sacrificing a kid's upbringing to do that is not an option.

I was fantasising about my own death, I started thinking what my funeral would be like and what music would be played, I was at that level of insanity.

'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.

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Other Usage Examples

Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.

Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.

For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

Psychopaths know the technical difference between right and wrong - which is one of the reasons their insanity pleas in criminal cases so rarely succeed they just fail to act on that knowledge.

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries.

Religion is induced insanity.

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.