English noun: madness | |||
1. | madness (state) obsolete terms for legal insanity | ||
Synonyms | insaneness, lunacy | ||
Broader (hypernym) | insanity | ||
2. | madness (state) 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 | ||
Synonyms | hydrophobia, lyssa, rabies | ||
Broader (hypernym) | zoonosis, zoonotic disease | ||
3. | madness (feeling) a feeling of intense anger | ||
Samples | Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. His face turned red with rage. | ||
Synonyms | fury, rage | ||
Broader (hypernym) | anger, choler, ire | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | lividity, wrath | ||
4. | madness (cognition) the quality of being rash and foolish | ||
Samples | Trying to drive through a blizzard is the height of folly. Adjusting to an insane society is total foolishness. | ||
Synonyms | craziness, folly, foolishness | ||
Broader (hypernym) | stupidity | ||
5. | madness (attribute) unrestrained excitement or enthusiasm | ||
Samples | Poetry is a sort of divine madness. | ||
Synonyms | rabidity, rabidness | ||
Broader (hypernym) | ebullience, enthusiasm, exuberance | ||